Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is the author of Drown, This Is How You Lose Her, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He writes the StoryWorlds newsletter on Substack.
Rise Up
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set in a familiar realm of forever wars fought at the behest of cruel elites. Like all great fantasy, it shows us what might be otherwise.
The Ghost of Gabriel García Márquez
On the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s posthumously published novel, Until August.
Octavia Butler’s Blasphemous Solidarities
The novel Kindred reminds us, emphatically, gruesomely, that white supremacy is us too.
Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again
Junot Díaz talks with Atwood about The Handmaid’s Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.
Radicalism Begins in the Body
Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.”
