Recalling the days after Bush’s re-election, Toni Morrison wrote an article for The Nation outlining the strategies malicious forces use to take control of the...
30.102018September 10, 2019
Archive for tag: abuse
I, Afterwards
nala-e-bebaak / نالۂ_بیباک (noun, urdu): an audacious sorrow The first signs of verbal violence emerged from a constant comparison between his own literary outputs v/s mine. There...
The Sword
Vera Black walks the line as she empties her email, but in a death march kind of way. She finds herself rummaging through routine rejection...
Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up
I’ve had straight cis men do fucked up things to me. I’ve been witness to straight cis men doing fucked up things to others. It...
Who’s Coming for You?
Sarai Walker’s novel Dietland (2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) has an unusual way of merging the violent with the mundane. Along with narrator Plum Kettle’s journey...
Report from the Field: The Other Section
I attempt to practice a feminism rooted essentially in intersectionality. As a woman who has had the privilege of studying feminist theory that illuminates the...
Report from the Field– What We Don’t Name: The Delicate Path of Literary Crimes
When I launched The Atlas Review a bit over two years ago, I felt certain that the best way to highlight new and exciting work...