Real Americans / Rachel Khong / Knopf, April 30, 2024 – $29 (hardcover) Rachel Khong’s sprawling novel Real Americans is an ambitious family saga. It…
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…
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…
Review: Conspiracist Manifesto
Valentina Desidiri and Stefano Harney start their essay “A Conspiracy Without A Plot” with a hell of a provocation: “Today it is not possible to…
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…
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…
Review: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Editor Thomas Mar Wee reviews Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts. In the opening pages of Fake Accounts, the recent debut novel by Lauren Oyler, who is…
Like a tune you just can’t shake: Larissa Pham’s Pop Song
Editor Sofia Montrone reviews Larissa Pham’s Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy In the silence, in the dark, Larissa Pham hears something shift. First…
Starving and Sated
Editor (now alumna) Maddie Woda reviews Jihyun Yun’s first collection, Some Are Always Hungry. In 2016, I stumbled upon Jihyun Yun’s poem “Recipe: Dak-dori-tang” in…