Gargoyle by Jake Hanrahan Will Anderson Having started his own independent journalism organization, Popular Front, more than two years...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Li Zhuang As writers, we play with words and punctuation so much that we start to see the...

The True Jazz of Wesley Brown's 'Tragic Magic' Aram Mrjoian The first book republished as part of McSweeney’s Of The Diaspora series,...

The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Devan Schnecker The Malevolent Volume is a text that inhabits several registers. It is at...

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Keri Miller “Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many,” says Giovanna,...

Maurice Carlos Ruffin. We Cast a Shadow. Penguin Random House, January 2019. $27.00. There is a lie that consistently recirculates around...

Erica Trabold. Five Plots. Seneca Review Books (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press), November 2018. $15.99. “The logic of permanent...

Mesha Maren. Sugar Run. Algonquin Books, January 2019. $26.95. The question of retribution, both its origin in desperation and its...

Sally Wen Mao. Oculus. Graywolf Press, January 2019. $16. The poems in Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus are about seeing and being seen. Mao shows...

Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State, MCD, 2018, $26. In 2016, Lydia Kiesling published an essay in the New Yorker in which she wrote,...