Li-Young Lee’s fifth collection, The Undressing, contains exploration of the human condition through the doors of interactions with […]
Reviews
Jane Satterfield’s Apocalypse Mix is a time capsule of the pre-Trump global political landscape that documents the ways […]
Beating Back the Images Burned on Our Brainpans: A Review ...
If poetry makes inwardness palpable, Lois Roma-Deeley’s poetry collection, The Short List of Certainties makes belief and resilience […]
On Lois Roma-Deeley’s A Short List of Certainties
Carlo Matos’ most recent book, The Quitters, is a collection of flash non-fiction pieces that goes beyond mere […]
On The Quitters by Carlo Matos
Sarah Rose Nordgren’s second book Darwin’s Mother, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, borrows stories and voices from […]
On Darwin’s Mother by Sarah Rose Nordgren
In Ruth Awad’s debut, Set to Music a Wildfire, the winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, […]
On Set Music to a Wildfire by Ruth Awad
If nothing else will continue to burn in the minds of her readers, the final page of Kamila […]
On Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire: The Final Scene
Michaels S. Judge’s The Scenarists of Europe is unlike any other book I’ve encountered. At novel-length (297 pp.), […]
On Michael S. Judge’s The Scenarists of Europe
The first image within A Story of America Goes Walking depicts a large black “X” speeding across two […]
A Story of America Goes Walking by Saara Myrene Raapana ...
The most unifying and (for many men at least) surprising aspect about the #MeToo movement was just how […]
ON EMARI DIGIORGIO’S THE THINGS A BODY MIGHT BECOME
To be a footnoter means paying attention, an exercise in authenticating and deciding what deserves further explanation. The […]
Taking Notes: Vulnerability and Chaos in Fady Joudah’s FOOTNOTES ...
Maybe more so than other texts, Sylvia Plath’s Ariel is impossible to read outside of the biography of […]