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…
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…
Close Reading Series: Morgan Levine on “Sonnet”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
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…
Close Reading Series: Spencer Grayson on “Newly, rendered, truly”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
Sunday Staff Picks: May 17th
Writers and Lovers by Lily King Writers and Lovers is Lily King’s latest book after the success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel, Euphoria.…
Sunday Staff Picks: May 10th
Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell is not the book you’re expecting—but unquestionably the book we all…
Sunday Staff Picks: May 3rd
Temporary by Hilary Leichter “I have a shorthand kind of career,” confesses the protagonist of Temporary, Hilary Leichter’s zippy debut novel. This confession is true,…
Finding What is Lost in C. J. Tudor’s The Other People
The Other People / C J Tudor / Ballantine, 01/20 – $27 (Hardcover) There is something relentlessly engrossing about a mystery. The suspense, the shock,…
Sunday Staff Picks: April 19th
Sh*t is F*cked Up and Bullsh*t by Malcolm Harris I picked up Sh*t is F*cked Up and Bullsh*t for fairly obvious reasons. Released less than…