Music From Another World
Robin Talley Inkyard Press ($18.99) by Helena Ducusin Tremendous progress has been made in the past several decades in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights and
What This Breathing
Laura Elrick The Elephants ($15) by David Brazil In an interview about the 1979 film Alien, director Ridley Scott stated that he understood the events
The Island Child
Molly Aitken Vintage ($16) by Jane Ainslie In The Island Child, Molly Aitken’s first novel, readers are taken to a barren, Irish island, where only
The Magic Fish
Trung Le Nguyen RH Graphic ($16.99) by Stephanie Burt The Magic Fish is everything. Or—in a less colloquial, wordier way—The Magic Fish is everything I
Hommage à Moï Ver / The Ghetto Lane in Wilna: 65 Pictures
Sigutė Chlebinskaitė, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, and Nissan N. Perez, eds. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius (€34) by M. Kasper Exquisitely designed, printed, and slipcased,
Homage to the Beats:
An Interview with Gerald Nicosia
Interviewed by Lawrence Welsh About twenty-four years ago, an English professor in West Texas named Tom Casey gifted me his first edition copy of Memory
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Edited by Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and Jennifer Elise Foerster W.W. Norton & Company ($19.95) by Mike Dillon
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers Unnamed Press ($26) by Eleanor Stern “People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don't you
Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
James Smethurst University of Massachusetts Press ($26.95) by Patrick James Dunagan Poet Amiri Baraka belted out revolutionary truth to counter political bullshit, his sharp critique
The Likely World: An Interview with Melanie Conroy-Goldman
by Zhanna Slor What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? This is a question I found myself asking while reading Melanie