Move Like Water
With a scientist’s perspective, a sea captain’s knowledge, and a poet’s soul, Hannah Stowe immerses readers in the world of the ocean in her debut memoir.
Reviewed by Elissa Greenwald
Tag Archives: winter 2023-24
Meltwater - Curve
Two recent collections illuminate what we gain when we examine the intricacies of life through a maternal lens.
Reviewed by Jessica Gigot
SMRTi
With a style exemplary of the international post-beat avant-garde, Nina Zivancevic’s travel writing is a welcome departure from the colonialist norm.
Reviewed by Jim Cohn
The Haunted Quality of Poetry: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein
From Pascal to Lovecraft and Gnosticism to midrash, poet Norman Finkelstein discusses some influences behind his new collection, Further Adventures.
Interviewed by Joe Safdie
An Eye in Each Square
The artist Agnes Martin slips in and out of Lauren Camp’s new poems like a wraith, an invisible companion.
Reviewed by Richard Oyama
Mother Howl
Mother Howl, Craig Clavenger’s first novel in eighteen years, is an ambitious crime story unafraid to be philosophical.
Reviewed by Gavin Pate
Loot
The third novel by Indian American writer Tania James, Loot, offers a corrective of sorts to Tipu Sultan’s reputation as a garden-variety despot.
Reviewed by Mukund Belliappa
We Make Things in Translation: An Interview with Angela Rodel
Translator Angela Rodel, who won, with author Georgi Gosponidov, the 2023 International Booker Prize for Time Shelter, discusses Bulgarian folk music, translating book titles and jokes, the influence of censorship, and her new translation of Vera Mutafchieva’s novel The Case of Cem.
Interviewed by Karen Noll
Fire-Rimmed Eden
Lynn Lonidier's poetry is invariably unique, and all the more valuable for it, as it realizes an idiosyncratic sensibility.
Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan
Growth
In her new memoir Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived, Karen DeBonis draws upon the various meanings of the word with exquisite vulnerability.
Reviewed by Blair Glaser