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INTERVIEWS
A Magical Monolith: An Interview with Álvaro Enrigue
Real history gets a mind-blowing makeover in the latest work by Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires, which reimagines the 1519 meeting of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma with the conquistador Hernán Cortés.
Interviewed by Allan Vorda
Never-Belonging in Tandem with Light: An Interview with Tiffany Troy
Poet, critic, and translator Tiffany Troy discusses her full-length poetry debut, Dominus, and its mythic setting of Ilium, "where the imaginary, the historical, and the present can coexist.”
Interviewed by Rose DeMaris
A Double-Tongued Troubadour: An Interview with Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Poet, publisher, and artist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright discusses his new collection of sonnets and collages, Doppelgängster — as well as how all the doubles in his life as a poet add up to a singular, ongoing practice.
Interviewed by Jim Feast
FEATURES
Byron Matters: Lessons on the Life and Death of a Romantic Poet
Though he is still regarded as one of the essential Romantic poets and remembered for his wildly picaresque adventures, Byron’s opposition to oppression may be his most enduring legacy.
By Mike Dillon
POETRY REVIEWS
All Tomorrow's Train Rides
Reality is what poet Matthew M. Monte wants, in all its clarity and precision—even when what it reveals is harsh or cruel.
Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Wonder About The
Matthew Cooperman’s latest collection is a portrait of the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado as well as an exploration of the peculiar concerns of ecopoetry itself.
Reviewed by Joe Safdie
Over the Edge
Dramatic in the best sense of the word, Norbert Hirschhorn’s new collection is written to be spoken and meant to be heard.
Reviewed by Warren Woessner
Night of Loveless Nights
A new edition of Robert Desnos’s truant poem marks the 50th anniversary of its translation into English by New York School poet Lewis Warsh.
Reviewed by Geoffrey Hagenbuckle
Fugue and Strike
The grotesque yet inquisitive poetry of Joe Hall returns to the limelight in Fugue and Strike, his fourth full-length collection.
Reviewed by Greg Bem
Childcare
Rob Schlegel’s fourth poetry collection examines parents' fragile emotional resilience in an age when capital and mass media tell us to find individual solutions for collective problems.
Reviewed by Stephanie Burt
NONFICTION REVIEWS
The Never End
For those interested in George Orwell’s complicated life and legacy, John Reed's The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6, and the Origin of Animal Farm is essential.
Reviewed by Zoe Berkovitz
Polymath
Best known for the 1972 smash hit The Joy of Sex, the protean author Alex Comfort was actually a respected public intellectual influential in a variety of fields, as detailed in this new biography by Eric Laursen.
Reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz