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“I wish you had those pills to help. Remember those?”
Zachary Tyler Vickers
Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is being celebrated as the vanguard of a new trans lit. In this interview, Lawlor talks about Paul’s origins, trans identity, and the future of queer literature.
Andrea Lawlor, Spencer Quong
2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Runner-Up
Carolyn Byrne
The Spring 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner
Neshat Khan
Abigail Rose
Congratulations to Neshat Khan!
Hye-young Pyun’s surreal, violent novels reject stereotypes about Korean women’s writing, taking up global themes of environmental collapse and the loneliness of city life.
Jae Won Chung
Man Booker nominees and more got their start at Boston Review.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
Novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Booker International Prize, presents a multicultural Poland, to the ire of the Polish far-right.
Marta Figlerowicz
2018 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner selected by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Herselman Hattingh
Congratulations to Herselman Hattingh
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