My favorite season is mango season. Two towering mango tress grew at my grandma’s house on the island of Guåhan. We patiently waited and watched the fruit turn from green, to yellow, to ripe red. I remember afternoons sitting around…
Matå’pang, Migration, and The Case of the Stolen Mangos
Craig Santos Perez
May 9, 2013
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What Sort of Questions ‘Should’ You Ask at a Literary Event?
M. Lynx Qualey
May 6, 2013
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A week or so ago, I was sitting on a couch in Abu Dhabi, interviewing the Syrian novelist Nihad Sirees. We spoke for several hours: about our shared love of Egypt, about the difference between scriptwriting vs. novel-writing, about his…
Refrigeration, The Pacific Body, and Other Perishables
Craig Santos Perez
May 4, 2013
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Today, as I faced my refrigerator, I remember that distant afternoon when my father took me to discover ice. A super typhoon is about to hit Guam so the electricity is shut down. Dad drives us to the grocery store,…
Miss American Sky
Natalie Shapero
May 1, 2013
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The unlikely star of this week’s coverage of the sequester, air travel is not faring well in the press. As many news outlets have been pointing out over the past few days, the recent congressional reprieve regarding FAA budget cuts…
Why We Chose It
David Lynn
May 1, 2013
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By David Lynn, Editor I had never read work by Aisha Gawad before, but when I came across this passage early in her story “Waking Luna,” [now in KR, Spring 2013], I found myself captivated: I have driven here in…
