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Protected: Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

Protected: There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: This is War

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Adam Dalva

Adam Dalva is the senior fiction editor of Guernica. He has published with The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The Guardian. Adam serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is the books editor for Words Without Borders. His graphic novel, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. He teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University. He has received fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. He teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.
Back Draft Interview

Brandon Taylor: “The story can’t be so loyal to one character that it betrays another”

By Brandon Taylor and Adam Dalva June 5, 2023
The celebrated novelist on how he makes character, how he writes scenes, and how he opened up his most recent novel by simply not writing at all.
Review Lit World

Objects of Curiosity

By Adam Dalva September 2, 2020
Elena Ferrante's latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults, is a marvelous blur.
Review Lit World

The Porous Boundaries of Longing

By Adam Dalva April 8, 2020
Garth Greenwell's Cleanness is consciously, cannily, canonical.
Review Lit World

In Search of an Ending

By Adam Dalva May 13, 2019
T Kira Madden's Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls charts a new path forward for millennial memoirs.
The Kiss Commentary Family & Relationships

The Heavy Load

By Adam Dalva December 31, 2018
A New Year's kiss brings an unexpected surprise.
Illustration by Alana Salguero
Review Lit World

I Wish I Could Leave It at That

By Adam Dalva October 3, 2018
Roxane Gay’s memoir is a testament to her skill with empathetic connection.
Review Family & RelationshipsLit World

A Little More than Kin

By Adam Dalva August 6, 2018
Justin Torres's We the Animals, which has been adapted into a film, is difficult to pin down — but all the more powerful for it.
Commentary Arts & CultureLit World

The Third Rail

By Adam Dalva May 31, 2016

Reflections on life at an artists’ residency.

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