The Lightning Came Without Rain
Nina Schuyler reviews Lightning People by Christopher Bollen today in Rumpus Books.
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Poet or Storyteller?
Tom Waits on Tom Waits, a comprehensive collection of interviews and encounters spanning nearly forty years, is essential reading for any Tom Waits fan.
Cool Reconnaissance of the Cursive M
Weather, for all of its pyrotechnics, is a tender book, artfully charting the landscapes these poems inhabit.
Our Conversations Cold-Pressed
Danielle Cadena Deulen has assembled a collection that deftly maneuvers through dew-formed natural worlds, myths, and histories gone wrong to create a poetry collection that I found hypnotic and, at…
Rubbish and Blazing Light
Set in contemporary Mumbai, Aravind Adiga’s second novel, Last Man in Tower, focuses on Yogesh Murthy, the man who wants nothing, and the community who doesn’t understand him.
A Toast to Finitude
In The Postmortal, first-time novelist Drew Magary shows us a world where humans no longer age—with the goal, it seems, of making us grateful that we do.
Poetry Can Save Us
The Trouble Ball witnesses the darker parts of history and celebrates resistance to the forces that created those.
The Children of At Risk
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Amina Gautier’s At-Risk tells the stories of teenagers who, for many reasons, are at risk.
Army Cats by Tom Sleigh
This collection has made me want to slink myself, like a cat, into literature, rub up against history and relish its connection to human curiosity.
A Tall Tale Too True
Set in the 1840s Midwest, Kris Saknussemm’s second novel, Enigmatic Pilot, delivers unexpected characters in a surreal interpretation of American history.
If Hemingway Were a Poet
In poet Ben Lerner’s debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, we follow expat Adam Gordon as he travels Spain managing the boundaries between art and life.
Return to the Year Broken Free
I wish I could explain to you, to myself, the effect this language has upon me, but I can only say it makes my skin crawl. In a good way.