Casey Plett [mks_dropcap style=”letter” size=”52″ bg_color=”#ffffff” txt_color=”#000000″]T[/mks_dropcap]he night Wendy’s Oma died, she had sex dreams. Only sometimes did she have sex dreams—usually Wendy had nightmares and usually she was...
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Announcing the Winner of the 2017 Cornucopia Literary Prize
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural Cornucopia Literary Prize is Rachel Lallouz for her short story “Eyes Like Limpid Pools.” In the words of our 2017 judge, Hiromi Goto: There were so many strong submissions with such a range in style, content, voice, each so...
Announcing the 2017 Cornucopia Literary Prize Shortlist
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Cornucopia Literary Prize for short fiction, judged this year by Hiromi Goto: “Pristine,” by Kristyn Dunnion “Eyes Like Limpid Pools,” by Rachel Lallouz “See You Next Soon,” by Jess Martin...
Blue-heads
Sadie McCarney I had to go and shear those craters in my hair, locked in my bucolic boarding school dorm room with sewing scissors and an androgynous ache. I was fifteen. The local “walk-ins welcome” didn’t know what to make of my head like the moon, so they buzzed the whole thing except a...
Carol: The Transfiguration of Patricia Highsmith’s Iconic Story of Love Between Two Women
Reviewed by Michael Lyons One of the most arresting exchanges in Patricia Highsmith’s Carol (originally published as The Price of Salt under a pseudonym) is not with the titular love interest of protagonist Therese Belivet, but with Mrs. Ruby Robichek, a sweater saleswoman at a Manhattan...
The Many Stories One Can Carry: An Interview with Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Interview by Brett Josef Grubisic Ahmad Danny Ramadan isn’t afraid to challenge readers with The Clothesline Swing, his debut novel. Weaving together fantastic and magical tales with those that are heartbreaking, sobering, drunken, and decadent, Ramadan’s storyteller, an old man residing in...
An Interview with Saleem Haddad, Author of the Novel Guapa
Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City to an Iraqi-German mother and a Palestinian-Lebanese father. He has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières and other international organizations in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Egypt. His first novel, Guapa, was published in 2016, a political and...
Every Colour at Hand
Jasper Sanchez You’re in an art store, halfway down the paint aisle. You’re thumbing tubes of acrylic, the aluminum casing cold against your skin. You’ve got iridescent gold in one fist, and you’re debating the merits of five shades of blue with your free hand. What’s the difference, you...
Sex by Other Names, a Review of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men by Jane Ward
Reviewed by Asam Ahmad In her new book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, Jane Ward makes a compelling and fascinating argument about the significance and role of sex between straight white men as a requisite ingredient that solidifies their masculinity, their sense of manhood, and most...