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Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Deeper Narrative: Tongo Eisen-Martin’s Heaven Is All Goodbyes Mandana ChaffaAugust 28, 2020 These are not poems to read quickly, but to return to repeatedly.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews The Complications of #MeToo: Mary Gaitskill’s This Is Pleasure Alicia Ezekiel-PipkinAugust 26, 2020 Quin, too, must make sense of his behavior and the consequences.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews What We Eventually Forget: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory Natalie DunnAugust 19, 2020 I surprised myself by reading Memory in an afternoon.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt Cody LeeAugust 12, 2020 Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.Read