One of the great pleasures of reading across Keelan’s body of work is seeing how...
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Recent Poetry Reviews
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...
Who, or what, can be captured in such open forms is this book’s question, and...
Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light
The poems and prose in Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light thus delve into...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
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...
Are each of us destined, sooner or later, to live and work on the rugged...
In addition to the detailed life of Ma Bo’le during the occupation, the novel is...
As I read this novel during the fall of 2018, the nation collectively returned to...
The war has continued for so long now that an entire generation has never known...
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Recent Nonfiction Reviews
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...
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Even within the Indigenous community, identity is a contentious topic, with reasons rooted in a...
This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton
The scale by which Sexton extends the territory she covers as a poet, practicing her...