Reviews
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Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Tova Gardner reviews Hadara Bar-Nadav’s Lullaby (with Exit Sign) today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Kind One,” by Laird Hunt
Released from Coffee House Press in September 2012 and recently honored as one of four PEN/Faulkner Award finalists, Laird Hunt’s Kind One is a crushing and beautiful book. Taking place over the span of a century, 1830-1930, Kind One weaves…
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“Life After Life,” by Kate Atkinson
When we are young every decision seems weighted with extra meaning. A teenager can trace the exact steps that lead from the missing of a ski trip to the life of an outcast. Not being allowed to date a certain…
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“Congressman Lincoln,” by Chris DeRose
On August 3, 1846, the day Abraham Lincoln won election to his only term in Congress, the gangly, 37-year-old country lawyer was unknown outside his Illinois district. America was a country of 28 states, largely unsettled west of the Mississippi.…
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It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev
David Peak reviews Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Uncanny Valley by Jon Woodward
Andrew Field reviews Jon Woodward’s Uncanny Valley today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Percival Everett By Virgil Russell,” by Percival Everett
The prolific Percival Everett tackles the timeless psychic tug-of-war between fathers and sons with zigzagging, psychedelic verve in his twentieth novel Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Everett has mastered his playful, self-referential style, and seems more intent than ever to…
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Song and Error by Averill Curdy
Maya Popa reviews Averill Curdy’s Song and Error today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Woke Up Lonely,” by Fiona Maazel
Loneliness seems to be having a moment. Of course, the subject isn’t entirely new. Alexis de Tocqueville identified a brand of loneliness seemingly specific to America back in the mid-nineteenth century; we also have 1950’s The Lonely Crowd and 2000’s…
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“Cha-Ching!” by Ali Liebegott
“It was 1994, the year of bad, low-blood-sugar decisions,” begins Ali Liebegott in her frank, funny and painfully realistic new novel Cha-Ching! I remember making a lot of bad decisions during my own version of 1994 – and Liebegott’s heroine,…
