The strength of these impossible-to-summarize poems and the disorder of any narrative is in the...
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Recent Poetry Reviews
The collection is wonderfully complex in its work towards uncovering un-simplified truths within the near-constant...
Almonds are Members of the Peach Family
Leading by example, Sauer shows that not only can our stories can be messy, hard...
Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice troubles the distinction between past and present. Rather than eschew...
In its contradictions and awareness of those contradictions, in its ability to project back a...
Refusing to be confined by the limits of narrative genre and form, she nevertheless exploits...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
Three Prize-Winning Short Story Collections of 2019
Based on some similarities between the books and the characters’ concerns, it’s tempting to draw...
Even with the harsh realities presented in the novel, there is a love of place...
Meanwhile, Englehardt expertly traces Eli’s path from the little boy who can’t cope with his...
The story itself belongs to narrator Samantha Peabody. Samantha Peabody, as she sometimes refers to...
Russell convincingly conveys the gory conflicts, the injustice felt by Native Americans and their acts...
Not only does Schlich have fun with content, but he also beguiles the reader with...
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Recent Nonfiction Reviews
If one remains open during the excavation process, it is possible to dredge up unexpected,...
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
The softness with which Renkl delivers the atrocities of life makes the joys of life...
Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...
Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
Take a moment to consider the word “hearth.” Does it make you think of the...
Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
This quietly devastating “book of friendship,” as the text is subtitled, both flies and lives...
Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration
Of course, Albon is not building cities. He is writing poems. The same physics don’t...