Happy birthday, Grace Campbell! Read this Campbell nonfiction we published in 2019! Windows lap up the rust belt, entire…
Reading the Blind and Blacking the Beyond: African American Fiction and Influence Theory in the Twenty-First Century
By Jeffery Renard Allen In an illuminating essay written not long before his death, the celebrated German novelist W.…
From the Archives: Five Nonfictions, by Michael Martone
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading these five Martone nonfictions, which we published earlier this year!…
Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…
Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology
Digressions Toward an Introduction to Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology John Madera, Editor Three Poems…
Fading Star, by Ángel Lozada
Translated by David Auerbach This hand I’ve been dealt is awfully heavy. In the first place, it’s nearly impossible…
Grace Notes, by Kenning JP García
December says it’s time to make some space for so much that is so long gone. the leaves heard…
Two Nonfictions, by Hilda Lloréns
The Garden of Rooted Memories I come from the plant people. I know this because I am possessed by…
Exactly Like Nobody, by Michele Carlo
In the Seventies, my family lived through Vietnam, Watergate, hippies, Black power, Gay power, Women’s Lib, and the infamous…
Digressions Toward and Away from an Introduction to Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology
“The more invisible something is / the more certain it’s been around.” —Joseph Brodsky “[B]eauty is a defiance of authority.”…