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NONFICTION REVIEWS
Strangers in the Land
Michael Luo reveals how successive generations of Chinese immigrants sought belonging in America despite programs of systematic exclusion.
Reviewed by Sarah Moorhouse
Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life
Dan Nadel’s new biography of Robert Crumb offers a deeper and more nuanced view than even the artist’s most devoted fans could have guessed.
Reviewed by Paul Buhle
POETRY REVIEWS
The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket
Kinsale Drake’s debut poetry collection is a love letter to the southwest, Diné culture, and the inherent lyricism that storytelling bears.
Reviewed by Danielle Shandiin Emerson
MIXED GENRE REVIEWS
Wave of Blood
Formally and stylistically innovative, Ariana Reines’s new book moves between prose and poetry with a captivating hybridity.
Reviewed by Robert Eric Shoemaker