Spring 2025 Online Edition

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To see the table of contents of our Spring 2025 print issue, click here.

INTERVIEWS

POETRY REVIEWS

What Good Is Heaven

In their debut poetry collection, Raye Hendrix interrogates kindness and mercy while exploring love’s complicated gestures.

Reviewed by Jennifer Saunders

Near-Earth Object

John Shoptaw emphasizes that resilience and creation are as much a part of our behavioral repertoire as violence and despoliation.

Reviewed by Lee Rossi

POETRY REVIEWS

High Solitude

Léon-Paul Fargue’s idiosyncratic book contributes to the lineage of the flâneur, that indelible Parisian lurker of corridors and street cafes.

Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan

May Our Joy Endure

Québécois writer Kev Lambert’s latest novel offers a trenchant social critique in a chaotic unspooling of words.

Reviewed by Marcie McCauley