This poetry collection is full of holes. That is to say—this poetry collection is full of “portals.” As […]
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Translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, the poems in Serhiy Zhadan’s How Fire Descends: […]
“Of all the literature, of all the language:” A Review ...
The writings collected in renowned short story writer and novelist, George Singleton’s debut book of essays are well […]
Nothing to Say (But a Lot to Show): George Singleton’s ...
What is it to read, to write? What is it to attempt to read Jay Wright? I grope […]
The Red-Tinted Grammar of the Day: The Polyphonic Poetics of ...
Especially since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ostap Slyvynsky’s poems have become translated and more accessible for […]
“Stay with me, sleepless night as black as soot:” War, ...
In Elijah Burrell’s new collection, Skies of Blur, Burrell provides mashups of the inner and outer, of the […]
Grief and Transformation in Elijah Burrell’s Skies of Blur: A ...
“I want to create art that’s unpredictable,” says the speaker in “steamboat,” one of eleven interstitial essays from […]
The Art of Unpredictability: It’s fun to be a person ...
In the latest publication of Mykola Horbal’s Details of an Hourglass: Poems from the Gulag, translated by Myrosia […]
Imploring a Spark of Mercy: A Review of Mykola Horbal’s ...
Jen Beagin, a master of small-town strangeness, has not strayed from her literary strengths with her third novel, […]
Watch or Be Watched: Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, Reviewed by ...
Kelly Sather’s debut story collection, Small in Real Life, is reflective sunglasses, the smack of flip flops, stardom […]
Performing California: Small in Real Life by Kelly Sather, A ...
There are three themes of this prize-winning debut book by Kewku Abimbola: Bridge-making, Naming, and Symbol as Language, […]
Saltwater Demands a Psalm by Kewku Abimbola, Winner of the ...
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. […]