In this compact yet expansive collection of poems, Laura Read places herself on a chair...
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What’s more, Brown’s development of the “duplex”—a sonnet-like repetitive form, whose name recalls apartment-style housing—showcases...
Hong's literary landscape is the sonnet. All but three poems riff on this form. Hong's...
Ultimately, we are left with an existence, the poet seems to suggest, that hovers between...
The body knows, can achieve this knowledge through mythic journeys and discipline, but there’s a...
Instead, lines, and the rhetoric that they contain, shuffle forward and back, make progress...
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A Shameful Life (Ningen Shikkaku)
Yozo struggles throughout the novel with social mores and his interactions with others—he wishes he...
The tense and atmospheric story, enlivened by Celtic lore, Appalachian legends, and killer zombies, captures...
Bernardo Atxaga (1951-) is unquestionably Basque Country’s most prominent author in terms of editorial success...
Set in modern-day America, Rosson’s impressive, character-driven fantasy is focused on two tortured souls, both...
Wall examines the darker alleys of human existence and the more questionable seams of Irish...
In Mark Mayer’s impressive debut collection of short stories, a circus or aerialist never actually...
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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...
Aguilar Camín varnishes his sentences with great perceptiveness and lyrical grace, and there is an...
All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer
These sixty-four brief, carefully wrought essays center on the writer’s mother’s battle with cancer and...