Rain Taxi’s Online Edition, the digital counterpart to our award-winning print quarterly, features additional material not available in print. Check back as we add new pieces weekly throughout each season! To see the table of contents of our Spring 2025 print issue, click here.
INTERVIEWS
Ecstatic Mundane: An Interview with Elaine Equi
Poet Elaine Equi discusses her new collection Out of the Blank, a vivid examination of how the consumer products we live among are tied to our fantasies, memories, and dreams.
Interviewed by Jim Feast
Be the Strange You Wish to See in the World: An Interview with John Madera
John Madera, poet, fiction writer, and editor of the online journal Big Other, discusses Nervosities, his new collection of experimental short fiction.
Interviewed by Rone Shavers
POETRY REVIEWS
An Image Not a Book
Kylan Rice’s debut poetry collection wrestles with the haunting fear of not finding the elusive ideal image.
Reviewed by Jami Macarty
At His Desk in the Past
This new chapbook offers readers one more chance to enjoy the pure devotion Franz Wright had for poetry and to witness the craft as he practiced it in his final years.
Reviewed by Jon Cone
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
Loving Sylvia Plath
A five-star act of reclamation, Emily Van Duyne’s new book decodes the violence in Sylvia Plath’s story and centers a communicable ethic of care.
Reviewed by Nic Cavell
A Book About Ray
By far the most complete framing of Ray Johnson to date, Ellen Levy’s A Book About Ray engages with the work of the enigmatic artist on his own terms.
Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan
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
MIXED GENRE REVIEWS
The Mundus
Arguably the first masterpiece of typographic abstract “graphic” fiction, N. H. Pritchard’s magnum opus must be seen to be read, let alone believed.
Reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz