Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The Revolutions of a Sonnet: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss Han VanderHartAugust 6, 2021 The richly historied form of the sonnet is a powerhouse for holding the past.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews How We Create Ourselves: Second Place by Rachel Cusk Marek MakowskiAugust 4, 2021 The voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Scrutinizing the Ties That Bind: Melissa Febos’s Girlhood Ellen Wayland-SmithJuly 28, 2021 By the end of the collection, Febos has managed to rewrite or erase entirely many parts of the patriarchal script that held her bound.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Child as Mother to the Woman: Catherine Gammon’s China Blue Geri LipschultzJuly 21, 2021 In this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews The Past Is All We Have: André Aciman’s Homo Irrealis Sukhada TatkeJuly 14, 2021 Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?Read
Read Features & Reviews Politics Reviews Panic Mode: The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld Lily Houston SmithJuly 7, 2021 Cyclical patterns of journalism notwithstanding, Gladstone sees this moment as uniquely concerning.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Pockets of Belonging: Wandeka Gayle’s Motherland: And Other Stories Kelly K. FergusonJune 30, 2021 The characters of Motherland might be displaced, but they are never alone.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Other Stories, Other Lives: Life among the Terranauts by Caitlin Horrocks David GalefJune 23, 2021 By the time the television cameras arrive, the rest of the world may be surprised, but we’re not.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews To Set Asunder: The Separation and Synthesis of Tiana Nobile’s Cleave Stacey BalkunJune 18, 2021 A word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps Naomi KanakiaJune 16, 2021 The key insight is that names, and indeed all boundaries, involve a hierarchy.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Unsettled Memories: First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami Jean HuetsJune 9, 2021 Author and narrator, fiction and memory, never settle comfortably into their proper places.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Electric Synthesis: Drakkar Noir by Michael Chang Stephen Scott WhitakerJune 4, 2021 Chang’s style imitates internet culture and the patterns of an anxious mind. But there’s also glamour.Read