Review: The Story of a Brief Marriage / Anuk Arudpragasam
The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam Review by Munib Khan James Baldwin’s short story “Going to Meet the Man” chronicles a lynching but begins and ends with a white cop trying to make...
View ArticleRocket-Fueled Fun: A Review of Michael Chabon’s Moonglow
Moonglow by Michael Chabon Review by Sean Towey I firmly believe that Michael Chabon is one of the greatest American stylists writing today, and for evidence I produce these lines: “He would put his...
View ArticleReview: Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music
Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music by Kazim Ali Review by Eric Schlich With several volumes of poetry, books of essays, novels, and works in translation under his belt, Kazim Ali seems to have done it all....
View ArticleReview: Anybody
Anybody by Ari Banias Review by Jayme Ringleb Anybody, Ari Banias’s debut collection, examines our invented understanding of a world we’ve codified with language and made, because of these...
View ArticleReview: Isadora
Isadora by Amelia Gray Review by Daniel LoPilato In “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin examines the legacy of the oral storytelling tradition and its print descendent, the novel. “The novel is...
View ArticleReview: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi Review by Kaley Jemison Helen Oyeyemi’s latest book, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, is a collection of short stories that ranges from magical realism...
View ArticleReview: Do Not Become Alarmed
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Review by Whitney Gilchrist A rare abstract sentence in Maile Meloy’s new novel Do Not Become Alarmed offers a way of understanding the story itself: “One aspect of...
View ArticleReview: Contradictions in the Design
Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann Review by Ray Barker The thirty-seven poems in Matthew Olzmann’s recent collection, Contradictions in the Design, strive to find meaning and value in...
View ArticleReview: The Return
The Return by Hisham Matar Review by Feroz Rather During the days of popular revolt against Gaddafi’s authoritarian regime, Hisham Matar—the 47-year-old Libyan writer who has made London his home—calls...
View ArticleReview: A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Review by Megan Tilley Elegantly crafted and dazzlingly clever, Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow transcends the often gloomy descriptions of Soviet-era...
View ArticleReview: The Ghost of Birds
The Ghost of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Review by Daniel LoPilato Half a dozen stories from the Arabian Nights open with an enigmatic, perhaps untranslatable metaphor. In “The Tale of the Enchanted...
View ArticleReview: Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Review by Theodore Yurevitch I didn’t know what a bardo was before reading George Saunders’s new novel Lincoln in the Bardo, and I can’t say I was sure...
View ArticleReview: Driving Without a License
Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph Review by Josh Brewer One has come to expect quality from Alice James Books. The venerable New England cooperative continues to publish the best new female...
View ArticleReview: You Should Pity Us Instead
You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine Review by Karen Tucker “Most serious and productive artists,” writes Joyce Carol Oates, “are ‘haunted’ by their material—this is the galvanizing force of their...
View ArticleReview: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington Review by Latifa Ayad I devoured Only Love Can Break Your Heart, by Ed Tarkington, page by page. It had been too long since I read a book so masterfully...
View ArticleReview: Mrs. Engels
Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Review by Sean Towey Close your eyes and imagine Karl Marx. Can you see him? That giant head covered in curly hair, that jolly girth? Good. Now bring to mind his partner in...
View ArticleReview: White Blight
White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad Translated by Jennifer Hayashida Review by Charlotte Muzzi Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, is a book-length lyric poem about the...
View ArticleReview: The Meursault Investigation
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Review by Feroz Rather Albert Camus is a modern prophet of humanism. He was born in 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria, into the French settler community. For eight...
View ArticleReview: A Little Life
A Little Life by Hanya Yangihara Review by Megan Tilley At the center of A Little Life by Hanya Yangihara is love. The kind of love that binds four men together over the decades, as their lives expand...
View ArticleReview: The Spectral Wilderness
The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf Review by Rachel Sahaidachny Oliver Bendorf writes in the poem “Ghost Dog,” “I miss things sometimes that I cannot locate in the heart.” Art is a form of...
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