The Language of Grief: Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
To grieve is to demonstrate dedication to those we love.
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Beginning Again: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
For Little Dog, putting language to memory becomes a way to survive.
Modern Lives We Lived: Xuan Juliana Wang’s Home Remedies
Social and economic forces are always pressing on the characters in Wang’s work.
Transcending Metaphor: Jenifer Sang Eun Park’s Autobiography of Horse
To call [AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HORSE] unique is an understatement.
Not Here to Make Friends: Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer
Consistent with the author’s headlong personality, the narrative of Rough Magic wastes little time.
A Fierce Compassion: Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism
WOMEN OF RESISTANCE recognizes this reality with fierce compassion, and a lot of really fine poetry.
The Past Is Living: Jennifer Militello’s Knock Wood
Militello chooses cadence over chronology to show how moments flow into each other and through us.
Our Own Glimmering Darkness: Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
Sleep seems like a stretch of velvet to which Benjamin is unable to submit.
The Gates of American Belonging: Devi S. Laskar’s The Atlas of Reds and Blues
It begins with a gunshot.
Any War, Every War: Checkpoint by David Albahari
Individual soldiers become a formless mass. War becomes an end in itself.
Making Absence Present: Save the Bathwater by Marina Carreira
Saudade is often translated as longing, and as with most translations, what gets left out matters.
Solidarity in Sickness: Sonya Huber’s Pain Woman Takes Your Keys
There is something so incredibly comforting about the honesty in Huber’s voice.