“A joy to leaf through—and read. It is heavily illustrated, with a mix of photographs, drawings, and comic panels, and it makes creative use of typography. The content includes an eclectic mix of essays, fiction, interviews, reviews, and recipes, making for a strong new title.”
— LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Glorious. This is exactly what we need right now... This is our better angels and we owe it to ourselves, and all of us—and our future—to engage with art, and with science, with truth and with beauty, with honor, and without division.”
— Heather Heying, DARKHORSE PODCAST
“An ambitious, meticulously designed publication about arts, culture, politics, food, and Philadelphia. It offers journalism, fiction, poetry, photographs, graphics, and personal essays by a diverse and youthful crew of creatives... Clearly, RQ also is a place for writers to stretch, or perhaps meander, and for readers willing to follow.”
— THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
“A high-production arts and culture affair with fiction, poetry and essays... A New Yorker for Philly? Root Quarterly pulls inspiration from higher-brow general interest magazines like Harper’s, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine and the London-based Riposte.”
— BILLY PENN