Crisp and laced with poignancy, Dissolve by Sherwin Bitsui is a haunting book of poetry. To haunt is to be tenacious, to hold on well past your expiration date. Dissolve calls forth characters who struggle in the oily, buzzing morass of modernity but seem unlikely to succumb.
Read MoreLeila Chatti’s debut collection of poems is mesmerizing for its narrative flow, illuminating language, stark imagery and altogether powerful voice.
Read MoreDeath in Her Hands, the third novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, begins when Vesta Gul, a seventy-two-year-old recent widow, moves to a rural town and finds a note during her usual walk in the woods.
Read MoreA recurring nightmare haunts the father in Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s novel The Fallen. In it, he is driving into the future.
Read MoreIn The Lateness of the World, Carolyn Forché’s much-anticipated new poetry collection—her first in a decade and a half—offers a subtle, seamless, and altogether stunning interplay between the poetic, the personal, and the politic. Forché’s “poetry of witness” lights the reader’s path through brilliant complexities of meaning, often in lean phrases that astonish with their power and demand repeated close readings via multiple lenses.
Read MoreIn Nicole Flattery’s short story, “Track,” the narrator describes her hometown as “a strange place dressed up as a normal place.”
Read MoreMemory, together with history and storytelling, play major roles in Monica Sok’s debut poetry collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On.
Read MoreABC News recently ran a story about an eighteen-year-old U.S. soldier who was about to deploy to Afghanistan—to join a war that began when he was only seven months old.
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