Jessica Baumgardner

I grew up in a house four blocks away from the Red River in Fargo, North Dakota. Follow the current of the river north, and you’ll find the smaller burg of Grand Forks, where my parents were raised; keep going toward the Canadian border and you’ll reach the rural farms

The other day, while walking down my driveway to get in my car, I noticed what looked like an enormous tangle of grape jellyfish: my bloody tampons, littered all over the street, spilling out of our garbage cans. Someone had rifled through our bins, looking for recyclables or whatever, and

Harper, November 2022, 224 pp. We All Want Impossible Things, the first novel for adults by Catherine Newman, traces two best friends—Ash and Edi—in their last few weeks together as Edi dies of ovarian cancer. We open on Edi, Ash, and Edi’s husband learning that there is nothing more the