A Review of Holly Lyn Walrath’s “The Smallest of Bones”
With a keen poetic vision, Walrath delves into the enigmatic depths of curved ribs.
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- May 12
- 5 min
A Review of Wu Sheng’s Poetry Collection “My Village: Selected Poems 1972-2014”
Wu Sheng's poetry emanates the essence of rural culture in Taiwan, underscoring the significance of rural places and modest processes.
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- Apr 26
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A Review of Man Fai Wong’s Photo Collection “Colors and the City”
"Colors and the City" is a stunning collection of photographs that showcases the unique character of Macau.
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- Apr 2
- 5 min
A Review of "I’m Always So Serious"
Karisma Price’s debut collection of poetry, I’m Always So Serious, out now from Sarabande Books, is a force.
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- Dec 6, 2022
- 6 min
A Review of Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense & Eye Level
The Rupture Tense, a National Book Award Finalist, is eerie and haunting, shot through with strange commands and otherworldly writing.
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- Oct 22, 2022
- 9 min
An Unyielding Relic: The Confucian Revival as Shown in Gu Mu’s Autobiography
As a technocrat and one of the main architects of China's economic miracle, Gu made Confucianism an essential part of China's politics.
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- Jul 6, 2022
- 5 min
A Review of Bruce Meyer's Toast Soldiers
Inside every writer, there is a child screaming to be heard as innocence slips through her/his blood-stained fingers.
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- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
A Review of Jhilam Chattaraj's Collection of Poems "Noise Cancellation"
In present times, where “the new normal” is changing drastically, the poems are a welcoming read.
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
A Review of Shin Yu Pai's Collection of Poems Virga
It is a comforting, meditative and spiritual book that offers some semblance of solace in these harrowing times.
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 5 min
Staring Outwards in All the Directions: A Review on Michelle Cahill’s Poetry Collection Vishvarupa
Cahill’s rendition of Vishvarupa not only looks out into the world, but ambits, and from that sojourn creates something unlimited...
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- Sep 27, 2021
- 3 min
A Review of Sanjeev Sethi’s Hesitancies
Sethi shows us the uses of poetry; He also moulds his craft to articulate the wise, rare yet universal verities of life.
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- Sep 23, 2021
- 17 min
Lonely Ghosts: Absence as Somethingness in the Works of Viet Thanh Nguyen
To see oneself only as a victim simplifies power and excuses the victim from the obligations of ethical behavior in politics, warfare...
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- Aug 21, 2021
- 6 min
Blurring the Line between Fiction and Reality: On Andrew Palmer’s The Bachelor
You’re willing to go with Palmer’s narrator on his existential quest, and entertain his lofty meta-critiques on contemporary culture.
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- Jul 4, 2021
- 5 min
The English Professor Who Linked Literature to World Politics
Brennan is convincing in his rendering of a self-critical intellectual who opened the world’s mind to the impact of language and art.
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- Jun 6, 2021
- 5 min
Prologue to Someone's Always Watching You
It must be said from the outset that Mac Aogáin’s writing is beyond classification.
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- May 8, 2021
- 6 min
Oh, Yes it Will
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America brings us to now, the intersectionality of the historical and present.
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- May 5, 2021
- 5 min
Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks
Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks
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- Apr 4, 2021
- 6 min
A Guide and an Almanac
by John Liddy Kieran Beville opens his book with the appropriate chapter heading, “Making a Start,” and some advice from Stephen King:...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 10 min
SO WILL THE SCRIBES
by Nicolas D. Sampson Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (Bantam Classics, 1988) ‘But I counsel...
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- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
A Candle for Her Lake-staring Mother
by John Liddy Zephyr by Mary Mullen (Salmon Poetry, 2010) On first browsing through these poems with my customary “getting to know you”...
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