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Recent Poetry Reviews
sound of wave in channel, Books I and II
Ratcliffe’s words carry in them the promise that, somewhere in this sustained observation, there is...
Ancient stories of transformation are again transformed by Rekdal’s telling, and it’s impossible to read...
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...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
In a world where buildings are attacked and then collapse seemingly out of nowhere, it...
Acutely amusing, cleverly twisted, thoughtful, and tender, When I Can’t Sleep is a formidable collection...
All too often tropes in literature about the African-American experience are seen as representative of...
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...
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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...