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Recent Poetry Reviews
Paino excavates what meaning we create behind our acts of living, what haunts us at...
In the absence of family, the self becomes sister, becomes multiple, becomes animal—more fiercely present...
Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity
As we share the same codified language predilections, we share the same thoughts and perceptions. The...
There is no shortage of wonder and love in this collection, despite the omnipresence of...
One Less River [is] a collection that rewards us over and again for joining its...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
When Henry enters a Walmart to steal medicine for his sick child, he glances up...
Nors achieves exquisite interiority in these narratives, burrowing so precisely into a character’s memory and...
Missaghi’s book maps the city and its dead, maps the way women move and act...
The seventy-one pieces in this dexterous, surprising collection are often weird and unexpectedly weighty, particularly...
Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity
As we share the same codified language predilections, we share the same thoughts and perceptions. The...
The approach feels organic, echoing the experience of families receiving letters from Vietnam “in lots...
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Recent Nonfiction Reviews
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass is a call to action that combines memoir, Indigenous storytelling, and scientific writing....
Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity
As we share the same codified language predilections, we share the same thoughts and perceptions. The...
Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
It is this kind of brokenness that Sinor seems to be talking about: not a...
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
The Best of Brevity is a collection of playdough lumps, each squeezed by a different...
Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
Her family relocates to a double-wide trailer in Saudi Arabia, a Kensington flat in an...
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
Farmers are few, and their work is extremely intricate, risky, and arduous. ...