Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman Those familiar with Neil Gaiman’s novels American Gods (2001) and Anansi Boys (2005) will know that he is no stranger to mythological concepts, which he has woven together to create original and well-regarded stories of his own. However, his newest book, Norse Mythology, draws the reader into the ancient world of the myths themselves. And what a world it is. Gaiman’s love and appreciation of these characters is tangible; there is a wealth of det

On the cover of Until the Cows Come Home, a poetry chapbook by Alain Ginsberg, there’s an illustration of a cow skull sitting in some water in a field under some jagged mountains and a muted sky. The skull’s been there a while; it’s bleached and there are already things growing from it. In the title poem, the bulls there have a similar end. They’ve gone to the slaughterhouse and aren’t coming home. But these bulls are real-life victims of fatal gun violence by police and othe

play dead by francine j. harris Several of the reviews that have been written about francine j. harris’s play dead have spoken about the book largely in terms of three particular points. The first is that the collection takes on difficult themes—themes like sexual assault and rape, violence against and the murder of women of color and Black lives, suicide and other forms of self-violence, the policing of queer identity and the queer body, and the abusive objectification of th