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Recent Poetry Reviews
Considering the weightiness of the subject matter—identity, love, language, and the limits of understanding—this collection...
At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered
Throughout his new poems, Levine operates as a poetic pantheist, locating vitality in the ordinary...
The most important thing about these edits is that the old words are not simply...
There are so many angles to loss, and as the speaker’s voice bellows in this...
Images are repeated and inverted; sentences flip syntax along with their corresponding sounds. All this...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
Sometimes these stories are laugh-out-loud funny in a way that doesn’t feel cheap or forced,...
Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018
Though the narrator seems to be an outside observer, the story feels intimate because we’re...
This woman’s story, and others like it, pepper Wioletta’s narrative, enfolding a charming bildungsroman into...
The novel is a showcase for Allio’s many talents, including her incisive use of language....
Carefully crafted tales of the supernatural, thought-provoking introspection, and relentless black humor can be found...
A Shameful Life (Ningen Shikkaku)
Yozo struggles throughout the novel with social mores and his interactions with others—he wishes he...
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Recent Nonfiction Reviews
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...
What Arnold’s memoir is really about, however, is family. The running is secondary, an access...
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
She marshals scientific, intellectual, literary, and journalistic resources to document how climate change has impacted...
As a collagist, Fincke's medium is the paragraph, each seldom exceeding a dozen lines, demarcated...