Book Review: It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know
Can You Imagine?: A Review of Chachi D. Hauser’s It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know Gabi Diaz Guerrero Whether explicitly invoked or...
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Apr 184 min read
Book Review: If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
A Review of Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury. Caroline Hampshire Geraldine DeRuiter’s...
Feb 94 min read
Book Review: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
A Review of Camille T. Dungy’s Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden Ceren Sevin Gardens have long been the site and symbol of human...
Jan 194 min read
Book Review: What Napoleon Could Not Do
The American Dream Revisited: A Review of DK Nnuro’s What Napoleon Could Not Do William Haydon The fiction that is the “American Dream”...
Oct 13, 20233 min read
Book Review: Mustache in Plain Sight
Your New Best Friend: A Review of Mustache in Plain Sight by Michael Buckius Kyle Flak Mustache in Plain Sight by Michael Buckius (Tolsun...
Sep 22, 20235 min read
Book Review: Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility
Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility by Anna Laura Reeve Anthony Borruso As the gerund in its title suggests, Anna Laura Reeve’s...
Aug 1, 20234 min read
Book Review: A Spell of Good Things
A Spell of Good Things by Ayòbámi Adébáyò Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s second novel, A Spell of Good Things, published a...
Jul 14, 20234 min read
Book Review: Proximity
Standing Near Enough to Feel Its Warmth: A Review of Sam Heaps's Proximity Gabi Diaz Guerrero The old refrain that everything is about...
May 9, 20235 min read
Book Review: Paradise Close
Paradise Close by Lisa Russ Spaar Aimee Seu Paradise Close (Persea Press, 2022) is the debut novel by poet Lisa Russ Spaar, winner of a...
Mar 22, 20236 min read
Book Review: Grass Chapels
Grass Chapels by William Wright Ian Hall Equal parts earthen and fabular, William Wright’s Grass Chapels, his first edition of new and...
Feb 14, 20233 min read
Book Review: Through the Veil and Back
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home by Kerri ní Dochartairgh Gabi Diaz Guerrero Finding hope in senseless violence can be...
Nov 15, 20224 min read
Book Review: Dear Diaspora
Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen Li Zhuang After a wave of anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes during the pandemic, there comes a tide of...
Sep 20, 20225 min read
Book Review: Folklorn
Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur So Young Koo An interwoven quilt of myths, hallucinations, and personal tales, Angela Hur’s novel...
Aug 16, 20224 min read
Book Review: Negative Space
Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger Peyton Wahl Grief is often devouring, alienating, and impenetrable. However, not so much in spite of...
Jul 26, 20225 min read
Book Review: Merciful Days
Merciful Days by Jesse Graves Ian Hall In his most recent collection, Merciful Days, Jesse Graves labors to make some sense of memory,...
Jul 12, 20224 min read
Book Review: Swallowed Light
Swallowed Light by Michael Wasson Landis Grenville This is a book of loss. The gun and the ghost dance in Wasson’s poetry, both reminders...
Jun 16, 20224 min read
Book Review: Oh William!
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo Elizabeth Strout’s Oh William! is the third book of hers featuring the tender,...
Apr 4, 20223 min read
Book Review: Finna
Finna by Nino Cipri Sierra Biggs Finding an elderly grandmother who’s lost in a furniture store should be easy, right? Well, maybe not if...
Mar 10, 20224 min read
Book Review: Flat-Pack
Flat-Pack by Anney Bolgiano Phoebe Myers Grafting a plant requires the fusing of a root and a shoot; the two parts meld together to...
Feb 17, 20223 min read
Book Review: Southbound
Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti Liesel Hamilton When you open Anjali Enjeti’s Southbound:...
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