Diving Makes the Water Deep
For Savich, there is no difference between that which is learned in the world and the learning that can happen in a poem; the one aids the other and vice versa.
Surfing with Sartre
The philosophical attitude of existentialism so perfectly fits our time, you’d think it was invented for us.
The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935
In this timely book, Matthew Baigell examines cartoon images of Jews published in mainstream American magazines in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
A History of Nomadism
My family didn’t move to these places, but their shapes, their possible breaths, bumped against my own history, my immediate future, parallel universes that might suddenly rope around my present, palpitating self.
Deep Salt Water
Deep Salt Water is neither political nor didactic; rather, it is a text that transcends genre and uses the ocean and the life that exists within it as a lexicon for the necessary act of forgiveness.
The Grammar of Untold Stories
We were going to visit Budapest for a vacation. “As long as we’re there, we could visit your grandmother’s village,” he said. “Maybe do a little research. You might find a family member who still lives there.”
Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
Collectively, Auker’s essays and prose poems describe both the prying loose of norms that have structured her life and the emergence of a vibrant woman who seeks out wild places.
I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
Reading this work gives the reader an uncanny sensation that Hall is not just presenting essays about the events of his life, but also mapping the typology of his soul.
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Pogrebin’s journey is distinct and individual, yet one which mirrors the quest of many Jewish people in America.
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, and others—Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, […]