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Recent Poetry Reviews
The book ajar, we witness ourselves becoming somewhat else. Ajar To The Night, we slip...
Garcia’s “throat is [a] throne,” a poetics of reclamation and sensual pleasure. Yield to and...
Evidence of rift is everywhere, and yet these poems look not just to ruin but...
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
This collection serves as a physical reminder of the ways we both move in the...
What makes these poems so intensely moving, so worthy of an adoration to match, is...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
Saba and Hagos, a young girl and her mute older brother have been displaced from...
Side by Side but Never Face to Face
The idea of acceptance, riddled with reluctant connotation, sometimes betrays itself....
Wexelblatt’s Hsi-wei Tales is a wonderful fusion of poetry and prose that captivates and holds...
However, this slim, powerful volume presents a world so viscerally haunting, readers are likely to...
Early in the novella, Rytkheu writes that a “legend could be said to be a...
It’s the sort of literary paradox definitely worth exploring. And it may be the very...
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Recent Nonfiction Reviews
A Boy Named Courage: A Surgeon’s Memoir of Apartheid
Himmet Dajee begins his autobiographical tale in his youth, which is split between Cape Town,...
At once raw and erudite, this slender book of essays packs a profound wallop. I...
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Goldbach’s conservative childhood was mine, and even if it's not yours, it provides a lesson...
Instead, he writes, “my beginning of trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime...
Frank pays affecting tribute to the lives of her mother and sister, both now gone,...
It’s lyrical, textured, natural, and unexpected. While the form these essays take are varied in...