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The Complex Disability Representation We Need: Rebekah Taussig’s Sitting Pretty

  • Hannah Soyer
  • December 2, 2020
What Taussig does, then, is ground these ideas in reality through her own lived experiences.
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A Holiday in Hell: Lauren Tivey’s Moroccan Holiday

  • Patrick Armstrong
  • November 27, 2020
If you’re going to Hell, bring a good guide.
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Desire Makes Storytellers of Us All: Anthropica by David Hollander

  • Hugh Sheehy
  • November 25, 2020
What a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
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Documenting Existence: Deed by Justin Wymer

  • Keegan Lester
  • November 20, 2020
Wymer is grappling with survival, with the cost of the duplicity of identity.
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What Society Allows Us to Be: Megha Majumdar’s A Burning

  • Karishma Jobanputra
  • November 18, 2020
What does it mean to be free?
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Still Wouldst Thou Sing: Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal

  • Gregory Emilio
  • November 13, 2020
Figures from antiquity—those masks of learned, privileged poets—are rendered utterly contemporary, down to earth.
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Identity Politics and the English Language: Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times

  • C.M. Mesquita
  • November 11, 2020
Who “owns” the English language?
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Wistful Intimacies: Homie by Danez Smith

  • Mandana Chaffa
  • November 6, 2020
Could I be one of Smith’s homies? I would like to be.
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Justice by Seeing: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina

  • Sarah Haas
  • November 4, 2020
But perhaps it is our want for firm ground that Bolina is challenging.
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What We Need: Juan Felipe Herrera, Maw Shein Win, and John Freeman

  • Barbara Berman
  • October 30, 2020
Barbara Berman reviews Every Day We Get More Illegal, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, and The Park.
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Learning to Be Haunted: Dennis James Sweeney’s Ghost/Home

  • Kelly Weber
  • October 28, 2020
We make a home, in other words, by letting in our ghosts.
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Any Moment Is a Door: Nadia Colburn’s The High Shelf

  • Kasey Jueds
  • October 23, 2020
Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
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