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“This Jealous Earth,” by Scott Dominic Carpenter

Scott Dominic Carpenter’s This Jealous Earth is the first book published by thriving literary journal Midwestern Gothic’s new press, MG Press. While Carpenter was born and currently resides in Minnesota,…

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Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds

Stag’s Leap is a guide to the end of a long marriage.

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“My Poets” by Maureen McLane

Maureen McLane has published two daring, original collections of poetry, and a book called Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry, from Cambridge University Press. Balladeering, with sometimes…

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“Pure,” by Andrew Miller

The central question of Andrew Miller’s novel Pure, set in Louis XVI’s pre-revolutionary France, mirrors that of the recent American presidential election—“yes on progress, but at what cost?”

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“The Lamp With Wings” by M. A. Vizsolyi

Love puts a lot of pressure on people to do things with each other. There are a lot of conditions to saying “I love you.” You have to act love…

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“The Yellow Birds,” by Kevin Powers

The innocuous title of Kevin Powers’ debut novel The Yellow Birds is a reference to a military marching cadence. In its lyrics, as anyone who served in the military in recent decades…

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“Waxwings” by Daniel Nathan Terry

Daniel Nathan Terry’s second collection of verse, Waxwings, opens with “Scarecrow,” an address to the poem’s namesake from its creator: “Scare-crow crafter, burlap-tailor, / black-eye smudger, when I’m done, /…

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Dwarf by Tiffanie DiDonato

While born with diastrophic displaysia, a rare form of dwarfism causing short stature, joint deformities, and very short extremities, Tiffanie does not allow the world to define her.

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“Book of Dog” by Cleopatra Mathis

The domesticated dog, evolved 15,000 years ago from gray wolves, is not a reliquary of slavish dependence in Book of Dog, Cleopatra Mathis’ seventh collection, nor is it a token…

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“Melancholia (An Essay)” by Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling’s wonderful new book of poems, Melancholia (An Essay)—her fourth—is more than a collection of abandoned footnotes and glossaries (poetic constructs she has been mastering since Night Songs),…

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Thrall by Natasha Trethewey

Joey Connelly reviews Thrall by Natasha Trethewey.

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“Lionel Asbo: State of England,” by Martin Amis

Martin Amis’s latest novel Lionel Asbo is a shallow book that sparkles with moments of profundity. The farcical content is evident from the cover of its British edition where a…

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