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Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it takes to find shelter. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without ... Read More about Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it takes to find shelter. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without ... Read More about Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”

"My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate--if not always diplomatically--the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her fa... Read More about The Professor's Daughter: A Novel

"I simply decided once and for all... to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety... thanks to this decision, I have gained a space of my own, a space that is free, where I feel active and present." -Elena Ferrante Contributors Include: Cathy Linh Che, Angie Cruz, Natalie D az, Ru Freeman, Sar... Read More about The Ferrante Project: An Aster(ix) Anthology, October 2020

"The works in Mothers Unearthed show how mothers re-experience and witness environmental (and social) catastrophe. They excavate and reinscribe the meaning of protectors as mothers. The fear, anger and cautionary hope is palpable in each of the pieces. Each work shows how these different crises impa... Read More about Mothers Unearthed: An Aster(ix) Anthology, September 2022

The "Cover Stories" issue features today's top writers rewriting (or covering) classic stories. To name a few, there's Roxane Gay channeling Margaret Atwood, Jess Walter embodying James Joyce, Meg Wolitzer taking on J.D. Salinger?thirteen stories, all told, each featuring stunning illustrations by t... Read More about McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)