How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Underneath the bleeping trappings of science fiction is a domestic drama: immigrant family, fighting parents, middle-aged father with failed dreams, sensitive son, mother in denial.
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That Sick Feeling
Janice Shapiro’s characters see that the game of womanhood has no winners—and some are frantic for an escape that they do not find.
Pastries, Cowboy Music / That Kind of Shit
Reading, and re-reading these poems, you’ll find lines which are so outrageous, hilarious, and true that they get lodged in your head, like songs; and, you’ll find yourself quoting the…
He, the People
A legal scholar warns of presidential power-mongering and calls for a national Day of Deliberation.
In a Strange Room
“In every story of obsession there is only one character. I am writing about myself alone… for this reason I have always failed in every love, which is to say…
What We Hack Up We Can Choke Down
It is Zweig’s essential Vermont-y-ness that makes her indispensable. The charm and beauty of those green mountains and isolation and mud seasons of that terrain is applied thickly in these…
How They Were Found
“As soon as the wolf forced himself inside her, she sprung her trap, showing him that she too knew what it meant to consume someone whole.”
Where I Live
Maxine Kumin’s poems about the specifics of life on the farm with family, and relationships to fish, fowl, horse and vegetable matter, not to mention lovely liquids and unappealing solids,…
Listen to This
Whether writing about Mozart or Björk, punk rock or opera, Alex Ross urges readers to search for the moments when the familiar becomes strange.
Holding Company
In Holding Company, his third collection of poems, Major Jackson achieves the difficult feat of writing a book that feels simultaneously both intensely personal and yet also archetypally American.
The Cleverest Man in the World
Donald Sturrock’s biography of Roald Dahl bridges the gap between the literary impresario and the troubled man.