It presents a tension as well for the reader: if silence is total absence, an...
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Recent Poetry Reviews
A Little More Red Sun on the Human
The collection begins with dramatic monologues and portraits, cinematic and enigmatic, that are more traditionally...
The mythological narrative works as a framework here because of its inherent mystery—the kind of...
The concept of a theory becomes a rich, generative shape with its own kind of...
Interiors and the fullness thereof feel at the heart of this book, a gorgeous kind...
Strong images from the botanical, geological, mammalian, and environmental worlds sensuously create lines of emotional...
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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
Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...
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...