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            On My Therapist, Late in This Life

            By Garrett Hongo
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            Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

            Special Feature

            College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

            Essays

            The Lonely Ruralist

            By Janisse Ray
            Essays

            Influenza 1918

            By Jane Brox
            Poetry

            Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

            By A. E. Stallings
            Special Feature

            Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

            By Jacob Baynham
            View All Features
    • Art
          • Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

            By Meghann Riepenhoff

            Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

            By C. J. Bartunek

            Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

            By Doron Langberg

            “Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

            By Eddie Arroyo

            A Lower Deep

            By Michi Meko

            “What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

            By Dhruvi Acharya
            View All Art
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          • on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

            By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

            on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

            By Bradley Bazzle

            on Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

            By Selamawit D. Terrefe

            Imaginary Maps (on Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som)

            By Stephanie Burt

            on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante 

            By Sandra Simonds

            on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

            By Julie R. Enszer

            on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

            By Kevin Clark

            Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

            By Radiclani Clytus
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Flannery Fever (on Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch; Critical Companion to Flannery O’Connor: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work by Connie Ann Kirk; and A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia by Sarah Gordon)

By Greg Johnson
From the Spring 2009 Issue

Greg Johnson, whose reviews have appeared regularly in our pages across many years, has published two novels, five collections of short stories, and several volumes of nonfiction. He lives in Atlanta and teaches in the graduate writing program at Kennesaw State University.

← Rome Obsession (on The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City by Grant Heiken, Renato Funicello, and Donatella De Rita; The History of Rome, Books 1-5 by Livy, translated by Valerie M. Warrior; Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide by Filippo Coarelli; The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard; Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak; Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s by R. A. Scotti; Satyr Square: A Year, A Life in Rome by Leonard Barkan; Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr; Blue Guide: Rome by Alta Macadam; and Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome by George H. Sullivan) → on Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughsedited by Oliver Harris

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