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Kevin Hong

Visual Arts Review: “Dilated Biography — Contemporary Cuban Narratives”

Curator Jorge Antonio Fernández succeeds, for the most part, in creating a stimulating show that is held together by formal and conceptual associations, not just political concerns.

By: Kevin Hong Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Cuban Art, Dilated Biography: Contemporary Cuban Narratives, Jorge Antonio Fernández Torres, School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Book Review: César Aira’s Miraculous Conception

In an age where technology has made the improbable perfectly plausible, squeezed out spontaneity, and raised skepticism about the nature of reality, how can we still believe in miracles? This is the crux of the novel, made delightfully vivid and comic by César Aira’s prose.

By: Kevin Hong Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: César Aira, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, translation

Book Review: The Overthrow of Pessimism — Sherman Alexie’s Song of Redemption

Grappling with one’s identity — complicated by the relationships between tradition and modernism, cultural history and the process of assimilation — is central to most of Sherman Alexie’s stories, and his exploration of these complexities is compelling and illuminating.

By: Kevin Hong Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: American, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories, Sherman Alexie, short stories

Poetry Review: Expanding the Power of Verse — The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

One feels when reading this anthology of Latin American poetry that editor Ilan Stavans tucks each poet he features into a folder, but that this categorization, while limiting, also encourages an English-speaking readership to appreciate the eye-opening diversity of Latin American poetry.

By: Kevin Hong Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: anthology, Ilan Stavans, Latin American, Refining the Tapestry: The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry

Poetry Review: Ghassan Zaqtan’s Haunting Poetics of Suspension

The poetry of Palestinian author Ghassan Zaqtan dwells in the space between life and death, memory and erasure, respite and continuous travel.

By: Kevin Hong Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Arabic poetry, Fady Joudah, Ghassan Zaqtan, Palestinian literature

Poetry Review: Poet D. A. Powell Redeems the Wasteland

In D. A. Powell’s latest volume, the dominant landscape is that of the wasting body, which is crisscrossed, investigated, confronted, and made useful again as a map in the hands of raw youth.

By: Kevin Hong Filed Under: Books, Featured

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