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…
An Interview with the Directors of “Hind’s Hall”
An Interview with the Directors of “Hind’s Hall” The Columbia Review: I mean, it’s a little unconventional to do the interview post-Q&A, but I don’t…
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…
Hell
Hell (جحيم) By Ameer Hamad (tr. Hoda Ali) We were expelled from the water We were expelled from the fire We are those born in…
Penelope Wires
Penelope Wires (أسلاك بينيلوبي) By Ameer Hamad (tr. Hoda Ali) The barbed wire on the border Is woven by a mother’s needle Her son, lost…
The Dead Sea
The Dead Sea (البحر المّيت) By Ameer Hamad (tr. Hoda Ali) The women here are coated in mud, their bodies do not comfort you You…
A Night in Jericho
A Night in Jericho (ليلٌ في اريحا) By Ameer Hamad (tr. Gabrielle Alvarez) The pool receded from the diver’s line like a girl who froze,…