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Book Review: Gauri Gill’s “Acts of Appearance” — Photography as a Form of Care and Ritual

April 12, 2026
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Gauri Gill’s work is shaped by a dense visual language in which light, composition, and texture are not secondary elements but stand as active components of meaning.

Book Review: Ada Limón’s “Against Breaking” — Faith in Poetry or Faith as Poetry?

April 12, 2026
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In praising poetry’s power, Ada Limón leaves clarity—and craft—behind.

Poetry Review: “Other Paths for Shahrazad” — Poetic Voices That Bleed and Live

April 11, 2026
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Jennifer Jean’s bilingual collection reveals how contemporary Arab women poets redefine storytelling, identity, and survival.

Poetry Review: The Tongue of the Invisible — Juan Ramón Jiménez’s “Eternities”

April 10, 2026
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Juan Ramón Jiménez’s “Eternities” could be considered a gallery of invisible tongues schmoozing at heaven’s bandwidth.

Book Review: Rene Karabash’s “She Who Remains” — A Balkan Tale of Gender, Law, and Survival

April 9, 2026
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However well or ill this smoldering novel works, it is undeniably compelling, with an ending neither tragic nor happy.

Book Review: The Mouse That Ate the Movies — Vicky Osterweil Dissects Disney’s Cultural Monopoly

April 7, 2026
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Vicky Osterweil examines how Unca Walt’s empire imposes a politically dangerous, patriarchal form of homogenization across all its intellectual properties—from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to cartoons, to “Star Wars” films and shows, and to amusement park “experiences.”

Poetry Review: The Sound of Sighs Restored — A.M. Juster’s New “Canzoniere”

April 7, 2026
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What may look at first like exercises in verbal acrobatics — closely rhymed sonnets, delicate madrigals, intricate sestinas — are simultaneously expressions of confessional, personal anguish.

Book Review: “Great Pond” — Where Beauty and Hard Truths Swim Together

April 6, 2026
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Ed Meek’s ability to harness language and cadence is comparable to watching a cowboy harness a wild mustang.

Book Review: Streetwear’s Conquest — Culture Captured, Politics Ignored

April 5, 2026
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Concentrating on the strategies that enabled casualwear to grow worldwide, the book ignores the broader historical and political conditions that encouraged that success in the first place.

Children’s Book Reviews: Happy Family Stories

April 3, 2026
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Three light-hearted books about family life reveal deeper meanings.

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