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INTERVIEWS
Writing Dust: An Interview with Summer Brenner
In this new interview, Bay Area writer and activist Summer Brenner discusses her memoir Dust, which chronicles her experiences growing up in a family that kept her brother’s mental illness a secret.
Interviewed by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
FEATURES
The Nature-Loving Spirit of Bruno K. Öijer
As humanity’s assault on the planet grows to epic proportions, contemporary Swedish poet Bruno K. Öijer offers a key to greater kinship between humans and the natural world.
By Emil Siekkinen
FICTION REVIEWS
An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance
At their deepest points, Diana Oropeza’s half-page inventions are earnest invitations to bear witness to everything that slips away.
Reviewed by Eric Bies
The Third Realm
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest novel may be to some a meditation, to others a dissertation, and to others still a digression.
Reviewed by Sam Tiratto
Jonah and His Daughter
In this inventive novel, Romanian author Ioana Pârvulescu invites us to read the Old Testament fable of Jonah as something that deepens through time.
Reviewed by Rick Henry
Black River
Nilanjana Roy’s new novel transcends genre to deliver a study of grief and an affectionate portrait of friendship.
Reviewed by Josh Steinbauer
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Dead Weight
In her debut essay collection, Emmeline Clein recasts the often isolating struggle of disordered eating as a collective one.
Reviewed by Olivia Q. Pintair
Tap Dancing on Everest
This new memoir by Mimi Zieman has something to offer readers of travel, nature, medicine, or science writing—as well as anyone who appreciates a real-life adventure tale.
Reviewed by Sandra Hager Eliason
The Rent Collectors
A phenomenal work of sociology and anthropology, Jesse Katz’s The Rent Collectors works its strongest magic when evoking the lives of undocumented immigrants in LA’s MacArthur Park.
Reviewed by Nic Cavell
American Precariat
The twelve editors of this essay collection offer a unique perspective as culture bearers from society’s most hidden corner.
Reviewed by Sara Dovre Wudali
POETRY REVIEWS
Here, There and Nowhere
Valery Oisteanu’s latest collection depicts a life savored intensely in the moment—one that risks everything with every single breath.
Reviewed by Bill Wolak
YOU
Rosa Alcalá’s fourth collection is filled with prose poems that challenge and disturb as they dig deep into the terrors women face.
Reviewed by Christopher Luna
Poems 2016-2024
J.H. Prynne’s latest colossal addendum shows an unparalleled poet holding forth at the height of his powers.
Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan
I Don’t Want to Be Understood
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s new collection highlights how transitioning is a way of getting off autopilot and pursuing embodiment on one’s own terms.
Reviewed by Oscar Ivins
MIXED GENRE REVIEWS
Autobiography of a Book
In his latest book, Glenn Ingersoll invites the reader into a truly collaborative thought exercise and makes it both fulfilling and fun.
Reviewed by Mike Bove