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Reviews
Airea Matthews’ debut collection, Similacra, is an experiment in time travel, a self-examination that takes place by means […]
Seeking Self in the Mirror: A Review of Similacra, by ...
As much as Laura McCullough’s seventh book of poetry The Wild Night Dress, which was selected by Billy […]
All the Kinds of Hunger in Laura McCullough’s The Wild ...
Elif Batuman’s absorbing and intellectually riveting The Idiot transports us back to the not-so-long-ago world of 1995. Times […]
On Elif Batuman’s The Idiot
Before I open a book of poems, I always feel a sense of hope. Oftentimes that hope quickly […]
When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List ...
Even in fiction one must hug the forest’s edges […]
At the Forest’s Edge: on Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Memories of ...
Elizabeth Colen’s What Weaponry, a novel in prose poems, examines the decline of a relationship. We glean a […]
What Weaponry by Elizabeth J. Colen
Post—, is his fourth collection of poetry, and it’s a fascinating and wonderful book. At once oblique and […]
Post- by Wayne Miller
Maja Haderlap’s outstanding novel, Angel of Oblivion (2016), offers a tender exploration of identity in a community deeply […]
Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap
In her first full collection, Katherine Rauk takes us on a classic heroine’s journey, but with this warning […]
Rivers in the Subconscious: A Review of Buried Choirs by ...
Hybridity done in a certain fashion—immersed in telling while methodically subverting format, structure, intention—is a careful job. It […]
Honesty and Orientation: A Review of Proxies: Essays Near ...
“American poets now usually do not seek to weave a comprehensive vision,” proclaims Mark Edmundson in his essay […]