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Poetry

Curating Resurrection

Susan Howe's Debths is the culminating gesture of her remarkable career.

Stephen Collis

Literature & Culture

The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

Jonathan Kirshner

Poetry

There Is No History Without Names

Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection confronts a history of physical, cultural, and linguistic violence.

Alan Gilbert

Poetry

Summer Poetry Reading

New poetry from Chen Chen, Jennifer Kronovet, Jennifer Scappettone, Alli Warren, and Andrew Wessels.

Boston Review

Poetry

How the Cinder Bears the Seed

Susan Stewart's new poetry collection questions the power and potential of her own art. 

William Waddell

Literature & Culture

Realization and Recognition

The art and life of John Fante.

Neil Gordon

Poetry

Astralize the Night

Anne Carson’s new work, Float, is a boxed set of twenty-two chapbooks in which the poet plays with different voices.

John James

Poetry

Familiar Shapes Entering the Body Raw and Undigested

Adam Fitzgerald’s ‘George Washington’ memorializes the author’s childhood in a stripmall America that is at once instantly familiar and arrestingly strange.

Tess Taylor

Poetry

Exit Text: Rumors and Ghosts

The Book of Disquiet performs something like a literary vanishing point.

Geneviève Robichaud

Poetry

Poetry and Agency Under Trump

Poetry and activism share an uneasy relationship.

David Micah Greenberg

Poetry

The Monstrosity of Sor Juana

Two new translations resurrect Mexico’s most enigmatic and paradoxical Baroque poet.

Joyelle McSweeney

Literature & Culture

Writing at the End of the World

Celebrated dystopian novelist Paul Kingsnorth talks surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it.

Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Ross

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