Piece I love

  • Blast From the Past: 10/28/2025

    By Rin de la Pena In the weeks leading up to the release of our 10th issue, we here at Levitate have decided to highlight our favorite pieces from past editions, starting off with E.P. Tuazon’s Duwende Challenge, published in Issue 7. You can find it on page 49 in the physical copy and on Continue reading

  • Piece I love: Heroine of the Century, a Scottish Warrior

    Staffer Zoé Nellum tells us why we should give The Falconer our attention. The Falconer by Elizabeth May is one of the most recent high fantasy novels I’ve read, and I was not disappointed. With authentic characters, intricate and immersive setting, it makes for a heart-string tugging plot I wanted to see through. May’s book represents Continue reading

  • Piece I Love: Anne Enright’s “The Hotel”

    Review from staffer Oona Winners I’ve heard a lot of good things about the fiction that The New Yorker includes in their weekly editions, but until last December I had not actually read a piece from it. Now that I finally have, I understand the hype. The story I read, called “The Hotel” by author Continue reading

  • Piece I love: “The Bearded Loon,” by Kelly Morris

    Ysobel Gallo reviews a piece from upstreet’s most recent issue.   We’ve been talking a lot about place lately. As a setting, as a conflict, even as a character. In Kelly Morris’s “The Bearded Loon,” published in last year’s issue thirteen of upstreet, a random pub, never even seen by the narrator, takes on the significance Continue reading