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Recent Poetry Reviews
Moseley does not just consider the boundary between outside and inside. Her poems also explore...
A crucial component of the book’s success involves the meticulous balance Deming constructs between disarray...
It’s like hearing out your friend who needs to tell you about that ex who...
Her rhymes are multifarious and carry out wildly different operations. They have been compared to...
Debora Kuan’s wonderful Lunch Portraits inverts and subverts this ideology of hunger, constructing poems that...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld
Katharine Haake provides a palliative for the shortage of thoughtful apocalyptic literature with Assumptions We...
Largely ominous and somber in tone, the concise, intelligent fiction contained in Sleeping Dragons will...
At its most basic level, Sonata is a thought experiment. It asks: What if...
In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees
It’s easy to slip into In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees, but not easy...
With The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager positions herself next to innovative writers like Rikki...
Parker ably brings us close to the beauty and meaning in ordinary people and simple...
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Recent Nonfiction Reviews
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Even within the Indigenous community, identity is a contentious topic, with reasons rooted in a...
This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton
The scale by which Sexton extends the territory she covers as a poet, practicing her...
This is a book that wrestles with the expansive ideas of life and death as...
Rants from the Hill, Michael P. Branch’s collection of humorous, sly essays is easy to...
For Savich, there is no difference between that which is learned in the world and...
The philosophical attitude of existentialism so perfectly fits our time, you'd think it was invented...