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Book Review: “Colossus” — Swimming With the Snakes

April 27, 2026
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Ross Barkan is a good enough of a writer to have avoided the trap of making this novel just an anti-Trump protest.

Local Author Interview: “Love Is What We Carry” — Andrew Krivak on Storytelling, Memory, and “Mule Boy”

April 25, 2026
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In conversation, Andrew Krivak discusses inherited grief, immigrant roots, and the novel’s unusual form.

Book Review: Wilhelm Furtwängler in Wartime – Reflections on Ian Buruma’s “Stay Alive”

April 16, 2026
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If there is a through-line consolidating Ian Buruma’s account, it is the admonition: Do not rush to judgment.

Book Review: Saints, Oysters, and the Weight of Melancholy in Nancy Lemann’s New Orleans

April 15, 2026
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I was surprised by how smoothly each book went down, with a little tingle of acidic satire lingering on the palate.

Poetry Review: William Lessard’s “/face” Maps the Human in a Digital Mirror

April 15, 2026
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By Michael Londra In ​/face, William Lessard examines how technology fragments identity, transforming our faces into data and design. /face by William Lessard. Kernpunkt Press, 100 pp, $18. Recently I saw Patti Smith perform her album Horses at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. Filing in, a sign alerted me to the following: “Attention Customers: biometric identification…

Book Review: “A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek” — The Ascent of Two Queer Outsiders

April 14, 2026
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For biographer Andrew Durbin, Peter Hujar and Paul Thek are historical figures from a lost era that he wants to discover on his own terms.

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.

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