Stancek opens a dialectic between the speaker and mystic Hildegard of Bingen that will surface,...
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These poems teach us about the sacrilege and sacraments of ingestion, the body our only...
Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader
Avant Desire offers an introduction to Brossard’s erotic lyricism and the span of her queer...
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Through this story of disobedient femininity, of a body turned against itself, of beginning with...
When do the narratives we embrace become sources of tyranny rather than comfort?...
In reconciling these contradictions, she seems to say: all we have is our sacred...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
Upon discovering his dead twin, Stewart decides to dispose of the body and appropriate Brock's...
They aim to free chickens from imprisonment in factory farms, in order to give poultry...
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...
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American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
Farmers are few, and their work is extremely intricate, risky, and arduous. ...
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,...