Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The Sound of Beginning: Birthright by George Abraham J. DavidOctober 9, 2020 These poems present a challenge to the typically imposed strictures of ownership, narrative, and solution.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Identity as a Hall of Mirrors: Descent by Lauren Russell Jesi BuellOctober 7, 2020 This book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The World Is on Fire: Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips Andre BagooOctober 2, 2020 A democratic art, the poet says, will take us through. Come November, vote.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews The Privilege of Anxiety: Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an Apocalypse Sara KrolewskiSeptember 30, 2020 What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Quintessential Quarantine Read: Paige Lewis’s Space Struck Julie Marie WadeSeptember 25, 2020 Narratives, reflections—“bright particulars,” every one.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Reclaiming History from the Bigots: Jill Lepore’s This America Robert RosenbergerSeptember 23, 2020 History itself is not so conveniently tidy, and neither is this book.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The Authentic Self: I Live in the Country & other dirty poems by Arielle Greenberg Joseph GooseySeptember 18, 2020 Every poem in I Live in the Country sells what it’s craving.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Girl Power: Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks Andrew McKernanSeptember 16, 2020 But this is We Ride Upon Sticks: someone’s perm falls out, someone becomes prom queen.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Gospel That Kicks Up the Dust: Neck of the Woods by Amy Woolard Irene CooperSeptember 11, 2020 Tenderness lies between the sharp and the sweet.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews What Is (and Isn’t) Held in the Light: Diane Zinna’s The All-Night Sun Holly M. WendtSeptember 9, 2020 Trauma’s wing conceals and reveals.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Homage as Provocation: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Sansei and Sensibility Ariel DjanikianSeptember 2, 2020 Pretend you are Austen. Enact an Austen novel. And what will happen?Read
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