“All the gods fettered to the machinery of our routine lives” That’s the final line of the poem All God’s Chillun from Greg Pardlo’s newest volume of poetry, 2014’s… Read more “A Review of Gregory Pardlo’s Digest”
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Teeth and Bones and No Home to Haunt: A Review of Colin Winnette’s Haints Stay
The Old West of Colin Winnette’s newest book is one denuded of the romance of American goodness, the country’s self-myth of inherent decency and indomitable success. There… Read more “Teeth and Bones and No Home to Haunt: A Review of Colin Winnette’s Haints Stay”
A Review of The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea
Despairing of God I went to the desert to seek my own saint. – from Sonoran Desert Sutras The surface of Luis Alberto Urrea’s newest volume of… Read more “A Review of The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea”
A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews
In Why God Is a Woman (BOA Editions, 2015), Nin Andrews uses clean, unpretentious language to give us a series of short prose poems that tell of a… Read more “A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews”
Whisky and the Werewolf: A Review of Andrew Ervin’s Burning Down George Orwell’s House
Ray Welter has no idea who he is anymore. A successful thirtysomething Chicago ad executive who made his name on a campaign that exponentially increased the sales… Read more “Whisky and the Werewolf: A Review of Andrew Ervin’s Burning Down George Orwell’s House”
Don’t You Forget: A Review of Kirk Honeycutt’s John Hughes: A Life in Film
No other filmmaker has ever better understood and better captured the experience of being a teenager in America than John Hughes. The teen films he made in the… Read more “Don’t You Forget: A Review of Kirk Honeycutt’s John Hughes: A Life in Film”
A Review of The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
There is no other fiction author I know of who handles her characters with the grace of Jhumpa Lahiri. Perhaps related, there is no author I know of… Read more “A Review of The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri”
Tick-tick In the Drifting Dark: The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang
More than anything else, Mary Jo Bang’s newest volume of poetry – The Last Two Seconds from Graywolf Press – is concerned with time. Not chronological time, but… Read more “Tick-tick In the Drifting Dark: The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang”
A Review Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events by Carl Rollyson
Over half a century after her untimely death at age thirty-six Marilyn Monroe still captivates screen audiences and intrigues the curious. Who – and what – was… Read more “A Review Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events by Carl Rollyson”
A Review of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine’s National Book Award-winning Citizen: An American Lyric is a testament to how far we have to go as a nation to move past the racism… Read more “A Review of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine”
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