Tressie McMillan Cottom Seeks to Write 'Powerful Stories That Become a Problem for Power'
McMillan Cottom's new book is a powerful rejoinder to those who want black women to make peace with a marginal status.
Rebecca Stoner
Rebecca Stoner is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Bookforum, Broadly, and elsewhere.
Why Communities Across America Are Pushing to Close Waste Incinerators
They can be a threat to public health, and a poor solution to larger environmental problems. Organizers from Baltimore to Detroit to Los Angeles are working for a future without them.
'Those Who Knew' Is a #MeToo Novel—and Much More
Idra Novey's new novel examines power imbalances, and how they beget violence and silent complicity.
How to Make Motherhood Easier in America
Three new books explore how and why our society is structured to make being a mother so hard.
Emily Jungmin Yoon Explores Trauma Across Borders and Generations
Yoon's debut poetry collection draws together contemporary political critique with tales of the comfort women conscripted into sexual slavery during World War II.
How Adrienne Rich Wakes Us Up
Looking back at Adrienne Rich's politics and prose—and toward a radical feminist future.
'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' Is a Narcoleptic Triumph
Ottessa Moshfegh's unsettling, darkly funny new novel asks readers to wake up.
Love Poems to a Troubled America
In his latest collection, the poet Terrance Hayes finds common ground with the many threats to our democracy.
How Do We Take Down Rape Culture? Telling Stories Is Just the Beginning.
Considering a new anthology of stories about rape culture—and two other anthologies about how to end it.
'Segregation's Constant Gardeners': How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive
Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.
Poetry for Those Brutalized by Capitalism
Daniel Borzutzky's new collection confronts the perverse logics of fascism and the free market.
Myriam Gurba and the Political Power of Being Mean
In her new and radical memoir, Myriam Gurba discusses reclaiming political power through the art of nastiness.