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2026 Multimedia Contest Roundup
In Boston, territory is marked by color, on the map and off. As a Black or Brown girl, you will spend your first months learning to read its deceptively cheerful hues the way you learn to read an all-white classroom or low-lit alleyway.A mother’s body is never her...
REVIEWS
Our Bodies are Mostly Water Reviewed
Our Bodies are Mostly Water Reviewed Our Bodies are Mostly WaterBy Katherine Riegel150 pp. Cornerstone Press, $21.79Released May 2025 Our Bodies Are Mostly Water, Katherine Reigel’s memoir in lyric prose, contains 88 pieces separated into 5...
MULTIMEDIA
Riding the MBTA
In Boston, territory is marked by color, on the map and off. As a Black or Brown girl, you will spend your first months learning to read its deceptively cheerful hues the way you learn to read an all-white classroom or low-lit alleyway.
CRAFT ESSAYS
Microcharacterization in Nonfiction
I’m not sure when microcharacterization becomes fully fledged characterization, and I’ve been debating whether it’s a matter of scale, if it looks different in flash than it does in longform. I don’t have a specific answer, whether it’s a phrase, a line, or a...
INTERVIEWS
“Meander a little, take some risks, be more like Montaigne.”
An Interview with Ann FadimanBy Joey Franklin and Patrick Madden Late last year, in front of a live audience at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, Anne Fadiman sat down with Fourth Genre editors Joey Franklin and Patrick Madden to discuss her long career as a...
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A Bind
If you travel with a fear of flying, mental health experts recommend that you hold fast to the facts. Remind yourself of statistics that show that the most dangerous part of your travel day is the car ride to or from the airport.
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