I was out in the front garden weeding between the about-to-bloom tiger lilies the first time I saw them. Four girls in bathing suits and flip-flops, their mouths popsicle red and Italian-ice blue. The post The Girl Gangs of Pacific Avenue appeared fi

Experts in art, writing, journalism, and policy discuss why climate change is the biggest story of our time. The post Four Storytellers Tackle Climate Change appeared first on Guernica.

The award-winning writer on editing his first anthology, horror versus sci-fi, and the American tradition of voter suppression. The post Victor LaValle: Imagine Downton Abbey, but with Smells appeared first on Guernica.

My daughter was five days old when I realized the love I had for her would fall short. The post The Space Between Us appeared first on Guernica.

I feel like an electric line, snapped from the pole by the wind. A live wire. I spark against the ground. The post Why We Cry When We’re Angry appeared first on Guernica.

The sea of simpler songs only the drowned and the fish know to sing. The post Out of Water appeared first on Guernica.

At first it was a pale shrimp curled pink inside V’s belly; now it is a mammal the size of a small cat. V feels its gnawing paws claw at her ribs, feels the burrow of its skull between her legs, a thrashing angry animal fighting at the cave where it’

In an excerpt from her new memoir, Jeannie Vanasco grapples with whether, and how, to approach the boy who raped her fourteen years before. The post Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl appeared first on Guernica.

Searching for meaning in madness at London's Bethlem Museum of the Mind. The post Out of the Maze appeared first on Guernica.

Loneliness, anti-blackness, and the need to tell new stories on the 400th anniversary of the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to the New World The post Wendy S. Walters: There Is No Neutral Body appeared first on Guernica.

She’d cried because she had expected it to be awful, and it hadn’t been. But she felt embarrassed about the kiss, and she’d asked Sigrid if she could just lie there next to her, if it was all right just to be in bed together, and Sigrid had said, Of

I keep coming back to the violence before the violence, the moment of narrative rupture. The post I Am Telling You What Happened To Me appeared first on Guernica.

I brought my lips to my calf and licked. I thought, only for a second, that I could taste the faint bitterness of daikon radish. The post Carrot Legs appeared first on Guernica.

In an era of climate change, everything feels strange. Even the places we call home. The post Starshift appeared first on Guernica.

Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of the roughly 130 endangered Native languages in the United States. This documentary follows her efforts to keep her mother tongue alive. The post SIMA Docs: Marie’s Dictionary appeared firs

For years afterward, Ming dreamt of riding the monkey’s roller coaster to the sun, and in some ways, she actually did. The post Ms. Ming’s Guide to Civilization appeared first on Guernica.

Environmental and personal fallout from the Fukushima disaster continues nearly a decade later. The post Everything We Do Not Know appeared first on Guernica.

J. David Bamberger turned his fried chicken fortune into an ecological experiment in the Texas Hill Country. The post American Folly, American Dream appeared first on Guernica.

If sex work were decriminalized, would Alisha Walker still have been charged with murder? The post Not the Perfect Victim appeared first on Guernica.

I seal myself in a coffin and pretend to be dead. That way death is a game of hide-and-seek and not a witness to the terror. The post My Turn appeared first on Guernica.

A female, feminist minister on the personal and political battle for reproductive rights in the South. The post Holy Love, Holy Rage appeared first on Guernica.

Eco-hardcore music, with its aggressive lyrics and antisocial performances, upended stereotypes of hippie environmentalists—today those visceral live performances match the sense of panic around environmental concerns. The post Anthems for the Anthro

What was she doing here on this mountain with this man, this writer who last year had been given an award for having written the worst sex scene in a book? The post Two Writers, Not Lovers, and Norwegian Butter appeared first on Guernica.

The author of “Trust Exercise” on her evolving narrative preoccupations and the radical contradictions of adolescence. The post Susan Choi: The Limitation of Perspective appeared first on Guernica.

How does the poem keep us there? in memory? in the traces? keep us coming back? The post Jasmine Fingers appeared first on Guernica.

The author returns to the landscape of her childhood to discover it has disappeared, along with many political dissidents. The post Bahrain on Horseback appeared first on Guernica.

The author of the Justice Hustlers series talks about writing at the nexus of consciousness raising and commercial fiction. The post Aya de Leon: Fiction of Empathy and Escapism appeared first on Guernica.

The thing was, she had wished a thousand times for a different child. In moments of crisis, she wished passionately that he could be someone else, someone calmer, or more adaptable, or more like her. She hated herself for these wishes because he was

The poet discusses his relationship with the late Donald Hall and the power of art, incarnate. The post Back Draft: Martín Espada appeared first on Guernica.

Michele Filgate, Nayomi Munaweera, and Sari Botton on a new anthology, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About. The post Plumbing the Silences Between Mothers and Children appeared first on Guernica.