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Recent Poetry Reviews
This reincarnating violence is a result of the perpetual cannibalism in the book. The act...
These poems chronicle irreparable violence enacted on people, the land, and animals, all rooted in...
There is an artistic paradox here: wherever a scar forms, nothing else can grow....
Proximity is often a necessary discussion tool for intimacy. Not that there is a prerequisite...
Poetry is engaged to dreams or a dream-state, and the surprising word-choices shift us into...
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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...