Musical Tables, the newest release from former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins, is a refreshing embrace of minimalistic, short form poetry: Paired with themes…
Review: Duh by Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
“I need a volunteer. This is a choose your own adventure poem,” says Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, self-proclaimed “Tall Spy” or so says her Instagram handle, followed…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 27th
George Saunders’ newest collection of short stories, Liberation Day, is an intriguing blend of realism and dystopian, but Saunders shines brightest in the stories that…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 20th
Much like this book’s eponymous animal, Gabrielle Bates’ debut poetry collection Judas Goat takes us toward a place where our humanity meets the hard edge…
Sunday Staff Pick: November 13
Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind is a spellbinding love letter to nature. The collection, separated chronologically into four seasons, opens in the spring with a…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 6th
Alison Mills Newman’s Francisco, an autobiographical novel chronicling the young actress’ days in Hollywood and the 1970’s Black Arts movement, was first published in 1974.…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 30th
The summer before senior year at Berkeley, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken is killed in a carjacking. The tragedy happens hours after Ken’s housewarming party, a…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 23
“called forward.” These words mark Ocean Vuong’s opening acknowledgements of his poetrycollection Time is a Mother, dedicated to Vuong’s partner, Peter, and Vuong’s late mother,…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 16
Tawanda Mulalu’s Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die begins at a bathroom mirror, where the poet stands combing coiled knots out of…
Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Between the 1 and the 0: Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John Mandel Emily St. John Mandel takes the reader on a poignant…