News & Notes
Featured Selections
Our summer recommended reading list
We hope you’ll enjoy these featured selections from 2020 chosen by our readers and staff. If you missed the pieces in the magazine or want to read them again, just click the links below. Our thanks to everyone who took the time to let us know about the stories, poems, or essays they loved.
More selections on race
We’ve gathered additional selections about race from <em>The Sun</em>’s archive. They are all freely available for anyone to read and share.
Selections on systemic racism
We’ve gathered selections from The Sun’s archive that examine white supremacy, systemic racism, mass incarceration, police brutality, and other related issues. They are all freely available for anyone to read and share. We will highlight more from our archive in the coming days.
National Short Story Month: Staff Selections
For National Short Story Month, we hope you’ll enjoy these fiction selections from The Sun’s archive. We’ve lifted our paywall during this period of isolation, so please feel free to share them with others.
Songs from Erin McReynolds’s Essay “Train Songs”
Erin McReynolds’s essay “Train Songs” appears in our February 2020 issue, and we thought readers might appreciate hearing the songs she mentions in the piece.
Listen to Aimee Nezhukumatathil Read Brian Doyle’s “Joyas Voladoras”
From our 2019 tribute to Brian Doyle in Portland, Oregon.
National Poetry Month:
Contributor Selections
For National Poetry Month, we invited Sun contributors to share poems from the magazine.
National Poetry Month:
Staff Selections
For National Poetry Month, we invited Sun staff to share poems from the magazine.
The “Empathy Tent” Photo
Gina Easley shared this story about her photo on the March issue’s Contents page.
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