It’s as if Mario Montalbetti is daring his reader to seek permanence in poetry’s aftermath, to maintain remembrance in spite of the difficulty.
Review: On Sunset by Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison says, with a wink to the reader: “I feel no allegiance to this hypothetical child who complicates what is simple.”
Review: No Budu Please by Wingston González
Reading No Budu Please is like committing to the excavation of the continual traumas that occur within a post-colonial consciousness.
Review: The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila
Reading Amparo Dávila’s stories is like accepting an invitation for tea at a haunted house.
Review: Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
As Smarsh unfolds her family's story, she offers sharp commentary on the structures that both shame the poor and perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
Review: North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah has written a story about family, both the families we belong to by blood and the ones we forge for ourselves out of...
Review: Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
The book’s final line is a warning as much as an entreaty: “Don’t ever let them talk you out of being mad again.”
Review: Camellia Street by Mercè Rodoreda, Translated by David Rosenthal
David Rosenthal is clearly a masterful translator of the original Catalan — you can see Rodoreda’s pen at work behind his translation.
Review: Elena Ferrante’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’ on HBO
This Sunday, the long-awaited HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend premiered, the first book in her Neapolitan novels quartet.
Review: Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez
Museum of the Americas interrogates the white gaze and how the curation of the archive is another palimpsestic layer of control and power.
Review: The Condition of Secrecy by Inger Christensen
Inger Christensen’s poetic hypothesis houses the intimacy between an arrangement of the poem and content to curate layered meaning.
Review: Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Killing Commendatore is the most recent entry in Haruki Murakami’s canon of sensory and supernatural games of chance.