Books
Chronicling acts of feminist sisterhood, “Girlfriend” memorializes a mutual support system that has been among the backbones of American life.
The book is crafted, sentence for sentence, as a seemingly impossibly layered mindscape — rich if not overripe in what must be metaphor, must be symbolism.
This is a measured book, harrowing at times but also thoroughly enjoyable. It’s a fun read about a rape trial.
Two portraits of champions: a famous fighter for civil rights and a little girl who loves chess.
How should artists live under autocracy? A Cold War Polish poet doesn’t have good answers, but offers chilling advice.
“Room on the Sea” is impressively crafted and written, but its lack of bite, drive, and action left me restless.
Still, even with its flaws, this short book is an important contribution to literature by and about atomic bomb survivors because it underlines their indispensable value as witnesses.
The book provides ample proof that activist artists, when determined, can use their work to influence our thinking in positive ways, and effect change.
What our planet needs now is the reincarnation of a writer who, while combing through the nooks and crannies of society for painful truths, uses depictions of the present to demand future changes.
Poetry Commentary: Antigone Kefala — Voice from Another Shore
Like her sisters in the art of crystalline complexity, Australian poet and novelist Antigone Kefala persevered through years of isolation, obscurity, and critical neglect.
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