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INTERVIEWS
Free-Floating Between Worlds: An Interview with Gillian Conoley
Poet Gillian Conoley discusses intuition as structure, auras as veils, catastrophe’s upsides, ghosts, portals, texts versus phone calls, and the curiosity cabinet of items in her latest collection, Notes from the Passenger.
Interviewed by Emily Simon
Criticism By Translation: An Interview with Peter Valente
The polymathic Peter Valente discusses his wide-ranging work, from translations of French and Italian writing to his own poetry, criticism, filmmaking, and more.
Interviewed by John Wisniewski and Eric Lorberer
Fanatic Diptych: Laura Henriksen and Courtney Bush in Conversation
Poets and self-declared fangirls Laura Henriksen (Laura’s Desires) and Courtney Bush (I Love Information) discuss fate inside chaos, poems as angels, memory as fantasy, and how poetry can help build the world we believe is possible.
FEATURES
57 Snapshots in Time: A Charles Bukowski Primer
Thirty years after Charles Bukowski’s passing, his spirit still looms large. To commemorate the author's birthday, Rain Taxi offers a thumbnail retrospective primer on the entirety of Bukowski’s prolific literary output.
By Abel Debritto
NONFICTION REVIEWS
The Garden Against Time
Olivia Laing’s new book presents gardening as a creative process, one just as involved with the imagination as writing can be.
Reviewed by Sarah Moorhouse
Arguing for a Better World
This new collection of essays by philosopher Arianne Shahvisi offer a refreshing amalgam of progressive politics and professorial pondering.
Reviewed by Josh Steinbauer
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
George Orwell’s contributions are many—though, as Anna Funder argues, it was the women in his life that made his success possible.
Reviewed by C.T. Wolf
FICTION REVIEWS
To Hell with Poets
Now available in a first English translation by Mirgul Kali, Baqytgul Sarmekova’s collection of stories offers something new in Kazakh literature.
Reviewed by Timothy Walsh
Brotherless Night
Now out in paperback, V. V. Ganeshananthan’s 2023 award-winning novel is at once a product of long and careful research and an amazing feat of empathic imagination.
Reviewed by Ann Klefstad
Walk the Darkness Down
The latest novel by Daniel Magariel doesn’t shy away from sad, even tragic, truths, but this story about a troubled marriage also suggests the possibility of hope.
Reviewed by Jonathan Fletcher
POETRY REVIEWS
A Year of Last Things
In Michael Ondaatje’s latest collection, a poetics of the transpersonal takes shape through objects cherished for their talismanic power to evoke the beloved.
Reviewed by Bill Tremblay
galáxias
This first full English translation of the magnum opus of Brazilian luminary Haroldo de Campos is an absolute triumph.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Zuba
Selected Poems: 1959-2022
This posthumous publication represents Neeli Cherkovski's long overdue recognition as one of the most essential poets of the Beat Generation.
Reviewed by Zack Kopp
Women on the Moon
Debora Kuan’s vulnerable new collection draws on her Asian-American roots to offer a refreshing take on modern femininity.
Reviewed by Julia Klahr
Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
One Impossible Step
These new translations into English of work by poets Roque Dalton and Orides Fontela are vital. Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan
ART REVIEWS
American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson
A collaboration between Gordon Parks and Ella Watson resulted in one of the most visually striking and quietly charged photo series of the twentieth century.
Reviewed by Chris Barsanti