book review
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Everyday Ferocity: Kathleen Hale’s Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker
Throughout the collection, Hale speaks with an assured, accessible voice.
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Grounded by Circumstance: Tina Barr’s Green Target
Barr is an astonishing image-maker, adept in creating significance through anthimeria.
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Both Aggressor and Victim: Adèle by Leïla Slimani
Who is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?
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More Than Ordinary: If the House by Molly Spencer
Attention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
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The Precipice of Possibility: Leslie Jamison’s Make It Scream, Make It Burn
This thrill that comes with being on the precipice of possibility runs rampant throughout Make It Scream, Make It Burn.
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Uncomfortable Truths: The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
Making it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
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Remembering as Deconstruction: Eduardo Halfon’s Mourning
To scrutinize the past, one must approach the walls between then and now.
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A Window with Reality Through It: Everything Here by Billie Swift
Swift’s shuffled lines create haunting, breathtaking possibilities.
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Everyone You Love Is Broke: The Not Wives by Carley Moore
How do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
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The (Pleasurable) Anxiety of (Aesthetic) Influence: Bill Berkson’s A Frank O’Hara Notebook
Long after O’Hara died, O’Hara was still influencing, shaping, editing, Berkson.
