Twila Newey’s new novel Sylvia explores the constricting confines of religion, and the ways in which a deft […]
Reviews
Patrick Madden’s latest essay collection, Disparates, embraces tradition and experimentation. The title comes from the Latin disparātus (separate, […]
The Futile and the Essential: A Review of Patrick Madden’s ...
Asiya Wadud’s Syncope is a pensive enunciation of incredible injustice. This visceral illustration of the refugee crisis reclaims […]
Violent Inactions: Rage and Reclamation in Asiya Wadud’s Syncope
What is the price of true individualism? One might, at first, answer “Individualism is priceless.” Then, one might […]
Mirrors, Wings, and Invented Things: Individualism and Otherness in Katie ...
During these months of uncertainty, many of us have sought refuge in books that might signal hope or […]
Traveling in the Undersong: Review of Marianne Boruch’s The Anti-Grief
Perhaps it is a benevolent mechanism of the mind, the amnesia we develop in adulthood that spares us […]
The Education of Angie Rubio: A Review of Living Color: ...
In this mise en abyme of abandoned places, times, and people, readers first enter Americana via “The Bell […]
“This house will outlast:” Paranormal and Verbal Delights in Adam ...
Opening most books, we can flip from the title page to the first poem. Opening this book, though, […]
Carrying Within You What You Choose to Leave Behind: A ...
First, a portion of “American Arithmetic” to set the tone: At the National Museum of the American Indian, […]
Snakebites and Sky Hooks: Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem
“…let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come.” -Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 […]
A Listening Skull: Livingry
In Unsun: f/11, his intrepid, trailblazing fifth volume of poetry, American poet Andrew Zawacki lends his inimitable poetic […]
An Avalanche on the Verge of the Tongue: A Review ...
Like the title of Jenny Molberg’s Refusal, the reader’s initial reaction is to refuse this agonizing, electric work […]