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Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang

  • Jenna Lê
  • July 7, 2017
Precariousness is an essential condition of life for the people who populate Vang’s poems, especially the Hmong refugees on whom the poet’s eye most lovingly lingers.
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Hunters and the Hunted: The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai

  • Chris Vaughan
  • July 6, 2017
Vastness does not always mean an abyss.
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The Occupation of America: Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen

  • Ben Purkert
  • July 4, 2017
[Moving Kings] has brilliant things to say about America and Israel, war and peace, diaspora and home.
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Reclaiming the Language of Pop Culture: Reversible by Marisa Crawford

  • Olivia Kate Cerrone
  • June 30, 2017
Marisa Crawford’s Reversible is an evocative collection, showcasing the ways in which pop culture saturates us with meaning, and how it teaches us to become.
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Gogol Meets Google: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting

  • Nina Renata Aron
  • June 29, 2017
[A]ttempts to relegate human impulses to some eminently manageable virtual domain end up revealing more about humanity than tech.
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You’re My Home Now: Lisa Ko’s The Leavers

  • Jason Roberts
  • June 27, 2017
First-time novelist Lisa Ko impressively employs a fractured narrative to portray the plight of fractured people, but don’t expect conventional satisfactions.
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The Impossible Question: Vagrants & Accidentals by Kevin Craft

  • Cate Hodorowicz
  • June 23, 2017
How are we to live when loss—personal, environmental, and political—is heaped upon loss?
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Grief Is Not Regret: May Cause Love by Kassi Underwood

  • Bromleigh McCleneghan
  • June 22, 2017
When women do not want a pregnancy, we may not experience the marvel and awe some claim are instant and “natural”—or, if we do, they are overshadowed by fear, and grief.
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Say Everything: The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

  • Julia Bosson
  • June 20, 2017
Truth is complicated, thorny, and often paradoxical. Marzano-Lesnevich advocates for a version of events that doesn’t attempt to simplify its subjects, that doesn’t reduce human life to weak metaphors.
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Earnest, Funny, and Fun: Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities

  • James Davis May
  • June 16, 2017
What makes Chen’s poetry so exhilarating is that these poems always have a center of gravity—the self—that keeps the many subjects they explore in orbit.
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Embrace the Physical World: Touch by Courtney Maum

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 15, 2017
Touch is a compelling argument that we should embrace the physical world, genuine human connections, and reject the technology that comes between us and other people.
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Unbridled Power in All Its Majestic Terror: Will Bardenwerper’s The Prisoner in His Palace

  • Nathan Webster
  • June 13, 2017
As we begin our own Age of the Strongman, Hussein’s almost effortless manipulation—of soldiers expecting exactly that behavior—shows how susceptible we all might be to the sheer force of a big personality.
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