The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Robert P. Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber Norton, 2015 352 pages / Amazon William…
Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement edited by Shelly Oria McSweeney’s, September 2019 192 pages / Amazon “Unlike other forms of psychological disorders,” Bessel van…
Installation shot, The Fulfillment Center at the Black Cube Headquarters, 2019; image courtesy of the artists and Black Cube. Photo: Third Dune Productions Fetishizing the warehouse in America feels like…
Creation by Sylvia Nickerson Drawn & Quarterly, September 2019 192 pages / Amazon Sylvia Nickerson is a gentrifier—a label that would cause many in the neo-upwardly mobile community to…
Emerald City by Brian Birnbaum Dead Rabbits Books, September 2019 416 pages / Amazon In her review of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande á part, Pauline Kael said that…
this hall of several tortures by Reuben Woolley Knives Forks and Spoons Press [UK], 2019 103 pages What is the ‘right’ poetry game to be played today? —Marjorie Perloff…
American Herstory by celeste doaks Backbone Press, 2019 Poetry about political figures tends toward the dour, think Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,” about Lincoln’s death,…
Evidence of V by Sheila O’Connor Rose Metal Press, October 2019 270 pages / buy-link In Evidence of V, O’Connor invites, no, implores the reader to join her as she seeks…
Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery Ohio State University Press, September 2018 296 pages / Amazon Lost in the woods. This is what it felt…
Empty Words by Mario Levrero Translated by Annie McDermott Coffee House Press, May 2019 152 pages / Amazon I. The Uruguayan author Mario Levrero died in 2014, leaving behind…
The Gotham City of Joker exists in a sort of 1980s purgatory. By design, the film never explicitly dates itself beyond the Carter- and Reagan-era cars and television sets dotting…
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Gallery/Scout Press, March 2019 336 pages / Amazon We first meet Queenie Jenkins, the 24-year-old sarcastic, first-generation Jamaican-British woman, with her legs in the stirrups…
PR for Poets: A Guidebook To Publicity And Marketing by Jeannine Hall Gailey Two Sylvias Press, March 2018 228 pages / Amazon Poets often struggle with promoting their work.…
Circus + the Skin by Keith McCleary Kraken Press, December 2018 251 pages / Amazon A brief caveat: I know Keith McCleary*. We are friends and former MFA classmates,…