A Prague Flâneur
Writing in a kind of critical-poetic journalism, Czech surrealist writer Vítězslav Nezval captures his beloved city of Prague on the brink of the Nazi invasion.
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
Clean
In her latest novel, Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán brilliantly explores a claustrophobic environment of class discrimination, cultural distinctions, and the struggle to endure a dreary life.
Reviewed by Dimitris Passas
Autobiography of a Book
In his latest book, Glenn Ingersoll invites the reader into a truly collaborative thought exercise and makes it both fulfilling and fun.
Reviewed by Mike Bove
Here, There and Nowhere
Valery Oisteanu’s latest collection depicts a life savored intensely in the moment—one that risks everything with every single breath.
Reviewed by Bill Wolak
The Nature-Loving Spirit of Bruno K. Öijer
As humanity’s assault on the planet grows to epic proportions, contemporary Swedish poet Bruno K. Öijer offers a key to greater kinship between humans and the natural world.
By Emil Siekkinen
Dead Weight
In her debut essay collection, Emmeline Clein recasts the often isolating struggle of disordered eating as a collective one.
Reviewed by Olivia Q. Pintair
YOU
Rosa Alcalá’s fourth collection is filled with prose poems that challenge and disturb as they dig deep into the terrors women face.
Reviewed by Christopher Luna
An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance
At their deepest points, Diana Oropeza’s half-page inventions are earnest invitations to bear witness to everything that slips away.
Reviewed by Eric Bies
The Third Realm
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest novel may be to some a meditation, to others a dissertation, and to others still a digression.
Reviewed by Sam Tiratto
Poems 2016-2024
J.H. Prynne’s latest colossal addendum shows an unparalleled poet holding forth at the height of his powers.
Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan