In the past few years, an alarming number of scholars, historians, and social commentators have established and upheld […]
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Translated from Zoque and Spanish by Wendy Call and Shook, and published as part of Milkweed Editions’s Seedbank […]
A Review of Mikeas Sanchez’s How to Be a Good ...
One night in 2012, Oliver Nguyen carefully removed all of the family pictures from their frames in his […]
On Photos That Lie & Poems of Hard Truths: Diana ...
This poetry collection is full of holes. That is to say—this poetry collection is full of “portals.” As […]
Portals to The Places That Hold: The Self-Forgetting Poetry of ...
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, ...
Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s Forgetting is definitely one of those novels that a reader begins reading and cannot put […]
Killing Time with the Memory of Absence: A Review of ...
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 Someone Who Isn’t Me, the debut novel by musician Geoff Rickly, the slightly fictionalized protagonist Geoff travels […]