Spring 2025 Online Edition

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INTERVIEWS

POETRY REVIEWS

Absent Here

Although Bret Shepard’s latest collection is filled with images of Alaska that a non-resident might recognize, Absent Here steadfastly troubles any fixed picture of the state.

Reviewed by Jeff Alessandrelli

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

FICTION REVIEWS

Fragments of a Paradise

As translated by Paul Eprile, French author Jean Giono puts a unique spin on Moby-Dick in this 1948 novel, turning Ahab’s anger into an expedition to the South Atlantic.

Reviewed by Alice-Catherine Carls

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

NONFICTION REVIEWS

Henry Martin: An Active Ear

The remarkable art critic, curator, and translator Henry Martin finally gets to be the subject of focus in a new volume compiled and introduced by Emanuele Guidi.

Reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz

Patriot

This posthumously published memoir by Alexei Navalny began as an effort to uncover the truth about his mysterious “illness” and morphed into the saga of an unbreakable battle with the Kremlin.

Reviewed by Grace Utomo