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Review: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Into this summer of our discontent comes poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s first book of essays World of Wonders: In...
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Wood cunningly uses the reader's knowledge so that, at decisive points, they either read with or against the...
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Romalyn Ante’s debut collection presents an important and magical display of culture and perspective.
Home Army: A Letter To My Grandfather
The Polish word for “loss” is “utrata”—the “u” an empty vessel on the page, but a full, circular...
Between Screens: How Netflix’s Élite Cured My Writer’s Block
The thing about a soap opera is that it reliably presses certain buttons. Someone onscreen goes through an...
Review: Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
Axiom's End sci-fi grapples with timely questions about our civilization while its hero grapples with aliens.
Between Screens: A Tent Of One’s Own
I feel like a child in an empty box. The walls are daydreams, and the world is anything.
Review: Want by Lynn Steger Strong
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Review: Clerk of the Dead by Alan Perry
Alan Perry’s poems do not only reckon with death or dying; they reckon with what it means to...
Review: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
A mixture of Juno meets Miranda July’s The First Bad Man meets something new entirely, Frazier’s book explores...
Incantations for Unsung Boys
The most powerful magic often remains invisible, except to those who know how to recognize it. The act...