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July 5, 2022
Translation: My Favorite Animal is Winter
FERDINAND SCHMALZ
He, Franz Schlicht, considers his innermost self, his fundamental constitution, as that of what they call a bad character. Albeit he sees this as something he became. To put it precisely, he thinks of his own fate as having started out from one moment.
He, Franz Schlicht, considers his innermost self, his fundamental constitution, as that of what they call a bad character. Albeit he sees this as something he became. To put it precisely, he thinks of his own fate as having started out from one moment.
July 1, 2022
Friday Reads: July 2022
SOFIA BELIMOVA
This round of Friday Reads brings you mini book reviews from The Common’s Literary Publishing Interns. From shapeshifting professors to self-deprecating travelers, these reading recommendations will enliven your summer TBR list.
This round of Friday Reads brings you mini book reviews from The Common’s Literary Publishing Interns. From shapeshifting professors to self-deprecating travelers, these reading recommendations will enliven your summer TBR list.
June 30, 2022
June 2022 Poetry Feature: Gabriella Fee
GABRIELLA FEE
Death springs from me like a hothouse flower. / My mother swaddles me in terrycloth / and vigils me for three days in her bed. / Pillbox. Rice and lentils. Kettle. Psalm. / She dims the lights as though I were a moth. / She combs my hair.
Death springs from me like a hothouse flower. / My mother swaddles me in terrycloth / and vigils me for three days in her bed. / Pillbox. Rice and lentils. Kettle. Psalm. / She dims the lights as though I were a moth. / She combs my hair.
June 29, 2022
At Home on the Range: A Review of Bitterbrush
HANNAH GERSEN
In recent years, female filmmakers have been carving out a space for themselves in the American West, redefining a genre and a place that is has historically been depicted as the terrain of lonely male cowboys and vigilantes.
In recent years, female filmmakers have been carving out a space for themselves in the American West, redefining a genre and a place that is has historically been depicted as the terrain of lonely male cowboys and vigilantes.
June 28, 2022
Waiting
TRACY HARRIS
“These are the real fireworks, right?” she asked her mother, without taking her eyes off her cell phone screen. And they were the real fireworks, the ones that in my heart I’d wanted to see all along.
“These are the real fireworks, right?” she asked her mother, without taking her eyes off her cell phone screen. And they were the real fireworks, the ones that in my heart I’d wanted to see all along.
June 24, 2022
Podcast: Mark Kyungsoo Bias on “Adoption Day”
MARK KYUNGSOO BIAS
Mark Kyungsoo Bias speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “Adoption Day,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. Mark talks about the inspiration and process behind the poem, which looks at issues like memory, immigration, and racism in post-9/11 America, all through the lens of a family experience.
Mark Kyungsoo Bias speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “Adoption Day,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. Mark talks about the inspiration and process behind the poem, which looks at issues like memory, immigration, and racism in post-9/11 America, all through the lens of a family experience.
June 22, 2022
Modest for a Dictator
IRINA HRINOSCHI
They were executed in winter: Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife Elena, who was also shot, but in people’s minds this was secondary to her being an insufferable pseudo-intellectual who loved fur coats. And their children, Nicu, Zoe and Valentin, spared during the 1989 Revolution.
They were executed in winter: Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife Elena, who was also shot, but in people’s minds this was secondary to her being an insufferable pseudo-intellectual who loved fur coats. And their children, Nicu, Zoe and Valentin, spared during the 1989 Revolution.
June 21, 2022
Review: Higher Ground
MAURICIO RUIZ
Higher Ground is an exercise in self-revelation on the page not only for Resi, but also for the author herself. “Resi ultimately enlightens herself and in doing so, I also enlighten myself by letting her enlighten herself,” said Stelling in an interview with the German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Higher Ground is an exercise in self-revelation on the page not only for Resi, but also for the author herself. “Resi ultimately enlightens herself and in doing so, I also enlighten myself by letting her enlighten herself,” said Stelling in an interview with the German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
June 16, 2022
How to Slaughter
SHAELIN BISHOP
What I feared most was the day she’d hold a knife out to me in one hand and a rabbit in the other and demand I slot blade into animal. I could not do jigsaw puzzles because it conjured this inevitability. I could not peel carrots. But she never did, perhaps so I would always need her.
What I feared most was the day she’d hold a knife out to me in one hand and a rabbit in the other and demand I slot blade into animal. I could not do jigsaw puzzles because it conjured this inevitability. I could not peel carrots. But she never did, perhaps so I would always need her.
June 15, 2022
Weekly Writes Summer 2022: Accountable You
Weekly Writes Summer 2022: Accountable You kicks off on July 18, just in time to help you keep up your summer writing goals year-round! Sign up now.
