Mike Broida’s work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, The Millions, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, and The Rumpus, among others. He currently lives and writes in Boston. Read more of his work at mikebroida.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Reckoning with Colombia’s Bloody, Conspiratorial History in Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s “The Shape of the Ruins”
Mike Broida finds danger in Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s exploration of the conspiracies that shaped Colombia in his new novel, “The Shape of the Ruins.”...
Home Is a Hymn: “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing” reflects the different ways people live through trauma....
How to Become One: Ruth Gilligan’s “Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan”
Ruth Gilligan’s fourth novel “Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan” explores the conflict of the of Irish-Jewish identity....
Slavery and the Weight of the Past
A review of Yaa Gyasi's new novel "Homegoing."...
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