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Poetry

Summer Poetry Reading

Reviews of new poetry from Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Kimberly Burwick, Caroline Crumpacker, Kathy Fagan, Jennifer Firestone, and Virginia Konchan

Hannah Rogers, BK Fischer, Vi Khi Nao, Martha Silano, Tamas Panitz, Heather Treseler

Poetry

“The Constant Accrual of the Divine”

MILK Dorothea Lasky Wave Books, $18 (paper) Dorothea Lasky’s first four books

Nathaniel Rosenthalis

Poetry

Hurtling Headlong into ‘Cruel Futures’

Carmen Giménez Smith’s fifth collection of poetry presents a nimble mind navigating a ruptured world.

Emily Pérez

Poetry

The Order Is Bullet

One of the most important contemporary poets of Francophone Africa, Josué Guébo writes in language that is raucous, difficult, and outrageously beautiful.

Virginia Konchan

Global Justice

What Are Human Rights Good For?

Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.

Mark Goodale

Literature & Culture

Imperfect Remembrance

A new anthology is dedicated to the scholar who saw nostalgia as a radical rebellion against modern ideas of time.

Marta Figlerowicz

Literature & Culture

The Education of an Ambivalent Feminist

Tara Westover's best-selling memoir may reveal more about the place of feminism in contemporary U.S. life than any book in recent memory.

Micki McElya

Poetry

On Rewilding

The word rewilding entered the lexicon around 1990, describing activist intentions to return land

Cecily Parks

Poetry

autochthony: or, so goes the logic

Frontispiece to Jean Blaeu’s Atlas Maior 1866   autochthony: self sprung from the earth: a

José Felipe Alvergue

Literature & Culture, Race

Janelle Monáe for President

What Afrofuturism can teach us about surviving Trump.

Christopher Lebron

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

John Feffer

Poetry

Cartographies of Wind

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

George Abraham

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