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A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid’s much-anticipated fourth novel Exit Westmakes deft use of a single fantastical element to create a magical realist novel of tremendous effect. Often, magical realism is an… Read more “A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid”
Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems
When I was a child, Moving scared me; every time I located my life, it wandered away once more. These words from Susan Kinsolving’s poem “In Preparation”… Read more “Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems”
A review of Beating the Graves by Tsitsi Ella Jaji
The African Poetry Book Series published each year by the University of Nebraska Press is always worth looking forward to. Having thoroughly enjoyed Mahtem Shiferraw’s Fuchsia last summer,… Read more “A review of Beating the Graves by Tsitsi Ella Jaji”
A Review of Franki Elliot’s Piano Rats
On one of my many trips to Quimby’s bookstore in Chicago (my favorite bookshop in the world), I took a chance on Franki Elliot’s Piano Rats, a poetry… Read more “A Review of Franki Elliot’s Piano Rats”
A review of Emmy Perez’s With the River On Our Face
Emmy Pérez’s collection With the River on Our Face is intimately tied to the territory of its origin. Taking as its muse the land, wildlife, and people in… Read more “A review of Emmy Perez’s With the River On Our Face”
A Review of Rachel Hadas’s Questions in the Vestibule
As you might be able to deduce from the title of Rachel Hadas’s 2016 poetry collection, Questions in the Vestibule is about the transitions, the in-between spaces, being… Read more “A Review of Rachel Hadas’s Questions in the Vestibule”
A Review of Madhur Anand’s A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes
The unique amalgam of poetics and physical science present in Madhur Anand’s 2015 poetry collection A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes is present from its very first lines: The… Read more “A Review of Madhur Anand’s A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes”
A Review of Bradford Tatum’s Only the Dead Know Burbank
Bradford Tatum’s debut novel is ninety percent of a great book. I’m not docking it because it lacks the magic to push it over the top, or… Read more “A Review of Bradford Tatum’s Only the Dead Know Burbank”
A review of C. Russell Price’s Tonight We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other
I spent the first seven years of my life in a trailer park. As kids, we moved in feral packs, and things that shouldn’t have happened happened… Read more “A review of C. Russell Price’s Tonight We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other”
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