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May 10, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Rebecca Turkewitz |Varsha Dinesh |R. Lazarus |James Cheng
In the lush and dangerous world of Jan Stinchcomb’s immersive novel Verushka, tea can turn to blood in your mouth, bears are fierce protectors of children, and maidens accidentally promise themselves to wood sprites. It’s also a world where new mothers fear the loss of their careers, teenage girls agonize over sleepover faux pas, and fathers grapple with long commutes into the city.
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May 2, 2024 | 
unchartedmag.com | Rebecca Turkewitz
Maud began to talk to the dead girls in January. Elizabeth and I listened to her whispering at night, urgent and furtive, for weeks. We became accustomed to the sound of it, just as we’d grown used to the freight trains’ long, low whistle and the river’s murmur outside the boarding house window.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
mcsweeneys.net | Rebecca Turkewitz
The LiveJournal community, circa 2005 The university café where English adjuncts hold their office hours My tenth-grade ELA class when I ask them to write one (1) poem The subject line of Submittable email notifications Bard College Any and all bars named after Oscar Wilde Literary Twitter The reception for the Nobel Prize in Literature the year Bob Dylan won An MFA workshop forbidden from writing any more poems about birds English professors walking by the new $80 million STEM building The...
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
rejoindermag.com | Rebecca Turkewitz
That Monday, Sam walked into her first period class and everyone went suddenly quiet. As swiftly as if she’d been punched in the stomach, Sam understood that they knew her secret. And they knew the version that Tissy had spun. Sam kept her eyes locked straight ahead as she slipped into her seat. She didn’t bow her head, even as she sensed the whole class watching her. She’d been practicing for this role for years: someone proud and persecuted.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
rejoindermag.com | Rebecca Turkewitz
Sam had met Jeff at a party in his dorm at Harvard. He was a genius; in high school he’d built a robot that could perform some sort of surgical operation. He skipped most of his classes, but was acing all his courses anyway. He said he only worked on things that interested him. Sam had interested him. He liked her wildness and that she didn’t seem to care what anybody thought of her. He liked that she would try anything new.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
biblioracle.substack.com | Rebecca Turkewitz |John Warner
I think it’s easy to forget what a phenomenon the Harry Potter series was. I’ve been thinking about this more in the context of my Chicago Tribune column from two weeks ago in which I observed that when I was teaching the 2000 to 2010 era, it was a virtual guarantee that my college students had read a book (or books) under their own initiative, the books being Harry Potter.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Rebecca Turkewitz
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Rebecca Turkewitz’s collection Here in the Night is filled with nuanced stories as moving as they are haunting.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | Jewish Currents |Rebecca Turkewitz
FORMAT Paperback$21.95(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Description The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, HERE IN THE NIGHT investigates the joys and constraints of womanhood, of queerness, and of intimacy.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
l8r.it | Rebecca Turkewitz
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Rebecca Turkewitz’s collection Here in the Night is filled with nuanced stories as moving as they are haunting.
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | J. Jones |Athar Fikry |Rebecca Turkewitz |Rachel Cordasco
Editor’s Note: This poem is hosted on a separate webpage on the Strange Horizons website. The poem uses JavaScript to produce a typographical animation of text based on user interaction. Clicking on links within the poem will transform the text; one of these transformations involves a strobing effect. The text is black on a white background. There is no sound. This format will not work with a screen reader. An audio version is forthcoming from our podcast.
