White Blight / Athena Farrokhzad
White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad Translated by Jennifer Hayashida Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, is...
The Meursault Investigation / Kamel Daoud
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Albert Camus is a modern prophet of humanism. He was born in 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria, into...
A Little Life / Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara At the center of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is love. The kind of love that binds four men...
The Spectral Wilderness / Oliver Bendorf
The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf Oliver Bendorf writes in the poem “Ghost Dog,” “I miss things sometimes that I cannot locate in...
Thief in the Interior / Phillip B. Williams
Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams All of the poems in Thief in the Interior, Phillip B. Williams’s debut collection, are poems...
The Narrow Door / Paul Lisicky
The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky Vulnerability spills from Paul Lisicky’s memior The Narrow Door. An atmosphere of exposure hovers over...
The Genome Rhapsodies / Anna George Meek
The Genome Rhapsodies by Anna George Meek Relatives coo over an infant, his future formed by both his drug-addicted parents’ DNA and the...
The Dead Lands / Benjamin Percy
The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy Benjamin Percy knows how to write a compelling monster novel. In Red Moon (2013), he uses lycanthropy...
Call Me By My Other Name / Valerie Wetlaufer
Call Me By My Other Name by Valerie Wetlaufer I’m still not sure if Valerie Wetlaufer has written a history in verse, or simply folded...
The Rusted City / Rochelle Hurt
The Rusted City by Rochelle Hurt Peter Johnson, editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, defines prose poetry as an intricate...
