In Mikhail Bulgakov’s unfinished satire Black Snow, translated into English by Michael Glenny in 2005, a harried writer has the misfortune of having one of his novels picked up by […]
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Gina Chung’s debut novel, Sea Change, intimately follows first-person narrator Ro, who is stricken by grief. Ro works an entry-level job at an aquarium, despite freshly entering her thirties. She […]
Read MoreFrom an initial diagnosis of depression at nineteen, to the eventual diagnoses of multiple mental and physical illnesses in the two decades that followed, Jen Soriano has lived a lifetime […]
Read MoreIn the opening poem of Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph describes “the vehicle still leagues away from rescue.” She is telling us the story of her own traumatic brain […]
Read MoreThere was a time when I hated the South and my white roots. That is, I felt ashamed of myself and my people. After moving away and returning, I now […]
Read MoreYearn is a potent verb. With just five letters, Rage Hezekiah invites readers to appreciate the urgency of her poems and the world they inhabit. Yearning transcends simply wanting something; […]
Read MoreSandra Simonds’ eighth book of poetry distinguishes itself with the innovation of an accommodating triptych form: three narrow columns or panels of variously justified verses that occasionally fall under diverse […]
Read MoreA. E. Stallings is celebrated as a poet of wit and wisdom. Her subjects are beauty and calamity, the acute present and the ancient past. Her poems are often unshakeable, […]
Read MoreIn “Coda: Stonington,” the poetic cap to the long first half of Dan Chiasson’s The Math Campers, a couple of stanzas and change flag us down: In a book on […]
Read MoreOver the last twenty years, literary fiction has taken a fantastic turn. Jeanette Winterson is reanimating Mary Shelley, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro are writing about robots, and everyone, it […]
Read MoreK-pop idols are made, not born. In the popular boy band BTS’s 2017 hit single “DNA,” the seven members dance in bright pops of neon, tangling and untangling their arms […]
Read MoreIn 2004, the trans theorist Eva Hayward began studying a species of marine invertebrate, the orange cup coral, or Balanophyllia elegans. Hayward wasn’t a biologist, but a PhD student in […]
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