Estelle Meaning Star
In Sarah Rosenthal’s new collection, ritual and ceremony face down the forces of pain and grief.
Reviewed by Mary Burger
Worn Smooth between Devourings
In her latest poetry collection, Lauren Camp compels us to consider how the landscape embodies our deepest longings.
Reviewed by Tiffany Troy
Embodied Unconscious
Beyond the specific writers it engages, C.M. Chady’s new essay anthology speaks to the very paths we travel to dream ourselves into a future.
Reviewed by Robert Eric Shoemaker
Satellite Image
Beyond its traditional thriller elements, Michelle Berry’s latest novel offers insight into the often-unsettling process of settling into a new home.
Reviewed by Adam McPhee
The Sentence Is the Portal: An Interview with Bhanu Kapil
Poet Bhanu Kapil discusses architecture and psychosis, experimental writing as rupture, the complexities of returning home, memories of wildness, and her current residency at Poetry Clinic.
Interviewed by Suparna Choudhury
Into the Good World Again
Poet Max Garland’s quiet and profound fourth collection uses themes of the pandemic—isolation, distance, time, breath—to approach existential questions.
Reviewed by Catherine Jagoe
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left
English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has written a relentlessly inventive memoir that captures how the simple events in a young life turn out to become culture itself.
Reviewed by Frank Randall
Diary of a String
Mark Francis Johnson’s new collection addresses the miasmic illnesses of modernity and offers a chance to reckon with the forced obsolescence of the sublime.
Reviewed by Eric Tyler Benick
I Became Synonymous with Leaving: An Interview with Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
Poet Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones discusses her debut work of creative nonfiction, The Hurricane Book, which combines the oldest forms of art—history and lyric—in a new way.
Interviewed by Erik Noonan
The Swans of Harlem
Karen Valby’s compelling new history tells the forgotten story of Dance Theatre of Harlem, a Black ballet company that gave dancers of color the opportunity to perform and star when most doors in the industry were closed to them.
Reviewed by Charles Green