Love by Hanne Ørstavik Translated by Martin Aitken Archipelago Books, February 2018 180 pages / Archipelago Books / Amazon What sort of a mother forgets her son’s birthday? Pose this…
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A few months ago, I went and watched Crazy Rich Asians. This happened in Philadelphia, during the middle of a cross-country move. Because of the theater’s abnormally strict views on…
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The Theory of Almost Everything, by Salvatore Pane Braddock Avenue Books, 2018 267 pages – Braddock Avenue Books / Amazon The premise of Salvatore Pane’s second novel, The Theory…
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Scientists say it might be far too late to reverse the damage we’ve done to this beautiful planet and today, a June day in New Jersey, the temperatures have soared…
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Women have always needed the other person in order to “exist.” In real life, on the page, etc. Husbands, boys, fathers, men. He/him. The default higher power. 21 years later,…
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Barnburner by Erin Hoover Elixir Press, October 2018 88 pages / Elixir Press If there is an underside to the age of next-level self-awareness and self-affirmation in which we currently…
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More Than Mere Light by Jason Koo Prelude Books, 2018 121 pages / Prelude Books For someone who was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn…
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Mirtha Dermisache: Selected Writings by Mirtha Dermisache Edited by Daniel Owen, Lisa Pearson Ugly Duckling Presse, March 2018 128 pages / Ugly Ducking Presse / Amazon Mirtha Dermisache was…
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Note from the editor: This Halloween, we asked you to review your scariest moments in books, with the aim of getting at just what of literature–perhaps even art in general–sticks with…
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The following is an excerpt from a long and finely-wrought review I meant to write about the film Covadonga. In it, I give some useful historical context of the film,…
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Children of God by Lars Petter Sveen (Trans. by Guy Puzey) Graywolf Press, 2018 256 pages / Graywolf In an essay for BBC Radio 3 entitled “Christmas Father,” the Norwegian writer…
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American Carnage by Sam Cha Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2018 48 pages / Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs The book starts with a little drama. That is, the first “poem”…
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Landia by Celina Su Belladonna*, 2018 112 pages / Belladonna* In her debut collection of poetry, Celina Su meditates on the everydayness of large-scale political and economic processes—be it gentrification, state…
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Woman, Running Late, In a Dress by Dallas Woodburn Yellow Flag Press, 2018 178 pages / Yellow Flag It’s confounding to have the ghost of your seven year old sister haunt…