Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Metaphysical Inquiry: Nick Laird’s Feel Free Jared SpearsNovember 22, 2019 The work maintains a wondering backward, as it were, tracing the varied details of lived experience.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Story of Memory: Machine by Susan Steinberg Justin BrouckaertNovember 20, 2019 The narrator is trapped here, in the summer her family and her life fell apart.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets Elizabeth KnappNovember 15, 2019 Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews The Violence of Forgetting: The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball Spencer RuchtiNovember 13, 2019 His is not a language that trivializes violence; it’s a language that exposes it.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Turning and Turning: Jericho Brown’s The Tradition Rebecca LehmannNovember 8, 2019 [T]his is a book in direct conversation with literary tradition.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Beautiful Silver Screen: Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star Amelia PossanzaNovember 6, 2019 [W]hat lies beneath the arcing paths of these stars, fueling and frustrating them?Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Fragmenting Forward: Brute by Emily Skaja Abigail McFeeNovember 1, 2019 After all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Expunging the Bogeyman: Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers Kim LiaoOctober 30, 2019 The root of these imagined, monstrous versions of women, Doyle argues, is fear.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The Brink of Unbearable: Careen by Grace Shuyi Liew Risa DenenbergOctober 25, 2019 [I]t is as if I am learning a new language with each poem.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Everyday Ferocity: Kathleen Hale’s Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker Margot ParmenterOctober 23, 2019 Throughout the collection, Hale speaks with an assured, accessible voice.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Grounded by Circumstance: Tina Barr’s Green Target Sarah FrelighOctober 18, 2019 Barr is an astonishing image-maker, adept in creating significance through anthimeria.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Both Aggressor and Victim: Adèle by Leïla Slimani Lakshmi MitraOctober 16, 2019 Who is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?Read