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INTERVIEWS
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
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
Poetry Detonates Dualism: An Interview with Martine Bellen
On the occasion of her new collection, An Anatomy of Curiosity, poet Martine Bellen converses about koans, gates, elevators, hauntings, Psyche, and more.
Interviewed by Chris Stroffolino
FEATURES
A Look Back: How to See
In his 2016 essay collection, David Salle shows that writing about visual art needn’t fall prey to dissertation-ese. By Josh Steinbauer
FICTION REVIEWS
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
The House on Via Gemito
Domenico Starnone’s previous novels are studies of repressed father-figures that move at thriller-like speed; his newest novel covers similar material, though its structure is more triptych than thriller.
Reviewed by William Braun
POETRY REVIEWS
Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm
Curve by Kate Reavey
Two recent collections illuminate what we gain when we examine the intricacies of life through a maternal lens.
Reviewed by Jessica Gigot
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
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
The Unreal City
For poet Mike Lala, the city is ground zero for both the violence of history’s erasure and the deluge of its return.
Reviewed by Peter Myers
NONFICTION REVIEWS
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
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
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
MIXED GENRE REVIEWS
The Thinking Root
In this thoughtful hybrid work, Dan Beachy-Quick’s sensitive translations use fresh language to cast new light on the words of ancient Greek thinkers.
Reviewed by John Bradley