In Emily Thomas Mani’s novella, wrestling is more than a sport — it’s a worldview, a narrative to live by. Wrestling is worthy of faith. The Church of Wrestling opens on 11-year-old undefeated wrestler, Jenny Arsenault, in a hospital room, where she visits with her...
For no reason at all, I pulled open a drawer I’d not touched in a decade and found myself poring through my parents’ high school yearbooks. Reading through the short comments of well-wishing students, I turned back to the address of the principal of Weequahic1 High. I...
Tomboyland, as the title of Melissa Faliveno’s essay collection implies, is filled with duality and the desire to label — even when words fail to adequately do so. Raised in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, Faliveno is a native of Tomboyland (her name for the Midwest), and she...
Last January, my spouse and I navigated an unknown road in Osage Beach, Missouri. The summer rush of tourism from visitors to the Lake of the Ozarks has died down by this time of year, and the empty four-lane roads made us wonder if we’d taken a wrong turn. We drove...
With El Dorado Freddy’s, Danny Caine and Tara Wray deliver art for people who: Caine’s wry, deceptively compassionate poetry pairs perfectly with Wray’s photographic witness to consider what fast-food culture means to America — what it has to say about us and to us....
The story of Asian carp is the story of political contest, unintended consequences and a nascent-at-best understanding of the intricate relationship between any one species and its broader ecological context. In Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis,...
