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From this rich literal and figurative vein, Peterson mines the many forms of interchange—cultural, economic,...
One of the great pleasures of reading across Keelan’s body of work is seeing how...
We, too, have seen this kind of semidocumentary poetics before; whereas the rummaging of personal...
Frederick Seidel has long taken pleasure in the absurdities of everyday American life. Under his...
Akant troubles the borders between life and death, between consciousness and the unconscious, through a...
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In Mark Mayer’s impressive debut collection of short stories, a circus or aerialist never actually...
Rogoff casts his characters’ lives through the various looking glasses of memory, memoir, and myth...
The world that Felver’s characters inhabit is cold and unforgiving, rife with poverty and violence....
When I was ten, playing in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, I gathered up some old...
The Talented Ribkins, in some ways, can be taken as three impressive novellas braided together:...
The women populating these stories fall anywhere along the gender and sexuality spectrums. They are...
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Recent Nonfiction Reviews
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...
On Contemporary Art isn’t a critique of its subject but a discussion of its situation....
Morales is able to string these eclectic stories together into a larger narrative, making the...
The Runner: Four Years Living and Running in the Wilderness
The book, a first person account of Torgeby’s years spent living and running in the...
Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light
The poems and prose in Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light thus delve into...