Real Americans / Rachel Khong / Knopf, April 30, 2024 – $29 (hardcover) Rachel Khong’s sprawling novel Real Americans is an ambitious family saga. It…
Anora: rom-com, realist documentary, or social indictment?
On a snap decision over carton egg omelettes at brunch, I bought tickets to see Anora at the AMC in West Harlem at 9pm on…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 24th
The Skunks / Fiona Warnick / Tin House, May 7, 2024 – $17.95 (paperback) Half skunk fable, half coming-of-age text, Fiona Warnick’s debut novel The Skunks follows…
Review: Moving the Bones
Moving the Bones / Rick Barot / Milkweed Editions, October 15, 2024 – $16 (paperback) “You are told to believe in one paradise / and…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 17th
Field Guide for Accidents / Albert Abonado / Beacon Press, October 22, 2024 – $18 (paperback) Starving and unstoppable: Albert Abonado’s latest poetry collection, “Field…
Film Review: “Hind’s Hall”
If I were to describe the experience of watching Hind’s Hall in one word, it would be visceral. The film, which is a docu-fiction produced…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 27th
d-sorientation / Charleen McClure / BOA Editions Ltd., September 3, 2024 – $18 (paperback) Charleen McClure’s d-sorientation is an exploration of space: the expansive empty…
The Superhighway of “The Code”
Since its 2020 release, I have been talking about and making my friends watch Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Spree. It is the most accurate filmic depiction of…
Review: THE WESTERN IS A SPEECH ACT. RUN TIME APPROX 20 MIN
Mid-September, I attended an exposition of local and regional experiments in text and sound hosted by Opus 40, an upstate museum and sculpture park located…
Review: Pig
Sam Sax’s Pig follows the queer, Jewish writer and educator’s two prior successful poetry books, Madness (2017) and bury it (2018). Composed of poems published…