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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Review: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
Spencer Grayson reviews Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife. Julia Alvarez’s new novel begins with verse, not prose, in a prologue titled “Broken English.” Her narrator Antonia Vega…
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Everything is Personal, This is Personal Too
Editor Emmi Mack reviews Laurie Stone’s latest collection, Everything is Personal: Notes on Now. In her latest collection of hybrid nonfiction, Everything is Personal: Notes…