Book Review: Ocean Vuong
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...
Book Review: Tragic Magic
The True Jazz of Wesley Brown's 'Tragic Magic' Aram Mrjoian The first book republished as part of McSweeney’s Of The Diaspora series,...
Book Review: Justin Phillip Reed
The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Devan Schnecker The Malevolent Volume is a text that inhabits several registers. It is at...
Book Review: Elena Ferrante
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Keri Miller “Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many,” says Giovanna,...
38.1 Raquel Hollman
Maurice Carlos Ruffin. We Cast a Shadow. Penguin Random House, January 2019. $27.00. There is a lie that consistently recirculates around...
38.1 Jessi Thomsen
Erica Trabold. Five Plots. Seneca Review Books (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press), November 2018. $15.99. “The logic of permanent...
38.1 Damian Caudill
Mesha Maren. Sugar Run. Algonquin Books, January 2019. $26.95. The question of retribution, both its origin in desperation and its...
38.1 Nicholas Bon
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...
The Golden State // Review
Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State, MCD, 2018, $26. In 2016, Lydia Kiesling published an essay in the New Yorker in which she wrote,...
Bands Names & Other Poems // Review
Peter Davis, Band Names & Other Poems, Bloof Books, 2018, $16 The latest poetry collection by Peter Davis is everything that the title...
