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As with Vigor, As with Pain: A Review of How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It

Egger’s sentences jump from one point to another, perhaps mirroring in her language how the speakers jump from one bed into another—the next temporary stop is wherever desire leads her to be.

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The Cost of Belonging: Augusto Higa Oshiro’s The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu

In this vortex of language and culture, the translator’s task is all the more essential and Jennifer Shyue’s translation from Spanish is both precise and poetic. In addition to the music of the prose, Shyue does justice to the multiple vernacular at play, bringing two unlike cultures into the portrait of a single man.

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“Being in Uncertainties”: A Conversation with Maureen N. McLane

A lot of poems want to place you in the darting mind of the poem. Some want to address you—as “the beloved,” say, or as someone hated, or they implicitly situate you as an overhearer of such an address. But poems can also be spaceships offering interstellar as well as time travel.

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Amnesia and Abject Terror Are Prerequisites: A Conversation With Ruth Madievsky

You don’t read literary fiction if you’re looking for tight little answers to life’s mysteries.

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The Burden of Being Real: Nicole Flattery’s Nothing Special

To see oneself and one’s people as real: this is the only way out of the shadow of the special.

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The In-Between-ness of Things: An Interview with David Groff

What would it mean to embrace being generative? To have a different way of taking on a responsibility for creating more life on the planet?

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Twenty-five Years Unbound: Reading a Book of AIDS

The range of prepositions used here in writing about how to write AIDS is indicative of the range of questions encompassed by the book, the range of the “brutal presence” of the disease.

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Inherent Violence: A Conversation with Rita Chang-Eppig

I knew I wanted to be deliberately vague, as to whether something was actually happening. For many people across the world and across time periods, there isn’t always this strong delineation between fantasy and reality.

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On abandoning words: Carlos Fonseca’s Austral

Hidden within all these constellations and labyrinths of philosophy is a love story and a story about the struggle of a writer to find meaning in words.

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The World is a Shitting Bird: A Conversation with Emilie Moorhouse

She mocked beauty standards and even the condescending tone they had when advising women on how to behave “nicely.” So she obviously did have certain strong leanings.

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