Finding Humor In Horror: James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird
Reading James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird brought me the kind of joy that makes me question the decentness of my pleasure. You know what I mean if you’ve watched... Read More
Against a Corrective Narrative
By Scott Dievendorf, Fiction Editor It’s a familiar narrative—our protagonist plunges into the depths of hell, witnesses a world unparalleled to that on earth (horrifying, challenging, against common virtue), undergoes... Read More
How Battle Rap Solved Racism
By Belal Rafiq, Associate Editor During the mid 2000s, battle rap’s popularity surged. Companies like Grind Time Now (GTN) and the Ultimate Rap League (URL) employed a business model that... Read More
Notes On A Female Revolutionary—For Nadya
by Marina Blitshteyn, Contributing Editor * I first read about Pussy Riot in a Guardian article on February 2nd, 2012, titled “Feminist punk band Pussy Riot take revolt to the... Read More
Ten Seconds in the California Sun: The Murder of Andy Lopez Cruz
By Cecca Ochoa, Editorial Non-fiction Editor Photo Credit: Reuters/Noah Berger Each person blinks once every two to ten seconds, that’s as many as five times in ten seconds, or, in... Read More
Not Just Guilty: A White Response to the George Zimmerman Case
This is the first of two essays that reflect on what has happened in the months since the trial of George Zimmerman. You can read Apogee’s original response to the... Read More