Books
Anselm Berrigan’s Something for Everybody
By Tony LeuzziGiven our times, a cynic might be excused for assuming Something for Everybody, the title of Anselm Berrigan’s most recent book of verse, is an ironic indictment of well-intentioned yet over-simplified gestures towards equity and inclusion.
Marlon James's Black Leopard, Red Wolf
By Yvonne C. GarrettThere is a depth of storytelling and world-creating in Black Leopard, Red Wolf that rivals Beowulf, Lord of the Rings, EarthSea, or even Dune. This is fantasy at is most complicated, entertaining, and mythically weighty.
Rebecca Solnit's Call Them By Their True Names
By Deena ElGenaidiRebecca Solnit’s essay collection Call Them By Their True Names deals with an America in crisis.
Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land
By Aly TadrosThis November, Graywolf Press released its ten-year anniversary edition of Notes from No Man’s Land; Biss’s compelling investigation of race and privilege in the United States remains as timely and relevant as ever.
Liminal Dispatches: Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias
By Ashley P. TaylorWang travels and translates between the worlds of reality and psychosis.
Strange Objects & Sockdolagers
By John DominiA persistent cliché insists that Big Publishing doesn’t like small fictions, yet such work keeps turning up on mainstream houses.
In Conversation
STEVE POWELL with Jill Dearman
James Ellroy’s novels and nonfiction are the stuff of obsession. But what kind of an obsessive writer would dedicate his reading, researching and writing time to uncracking the code of the famed L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia author
Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni & Elizabeth Powell
By Kristina Marie DarlingIn his book The Dialogic Imagination, M. M. Bakhtin observes that “the poetic symbol presupposes the unity of a voice with which it is identical, and presupposes that such a voice is completely alone within its own discourse.
In Conversation
Verdant Voices: The Women of Green Writers Press
By Emma IrvingWhen Dede Cummings founded Green Writers Press (GWP) in April 2014, she sought to use her twenty-five plus years of publishing experience to do something about the growing climate crisis.
In Conversation
Tom Sleigh with Alex Dueben
Tom Sleigh has been writing and publishing poetry for decades, but in the past decade, his work has shifted.
In Conversation
Debra Di Blasi with Joe Milazzo
In the words of poet Maged Zaher, “we live in an interesting hell.” Consider that one of the most profitable blockbusters of summer 2018 leans hard (and ingeniously so) into its tendencies towards Communist agitprop.
