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…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 7th
The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang The first thing you will notice about The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang is the shape of…
Sunday Staff Picks: May 1st
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani Scattered All Over the Earth, the first installment of a trilogy by Japanese…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 27th
Afterfeast by Lisa Hiton “Here are lovers ripening in the purple sky, the space where there is nothing between. Face me. Leap into it. The…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 12th
In Intimacies, Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, the unnamed narrator moves to the Hague for a one-year gig as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court,…