Lisa Robertson | The Baudelaire Fractal | Coach House Books | January 2020 | 160 Pages By way of beginning...
Books like these area dime a dozen lately. Readers might do well to supplement their reading with Against the Fascist Creep or Theodor Adorno's The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses or Julia Boyd's Travelers in the Third Reich or Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler.
Before bedtime, in their two-room apartment on the outskirts of postwar Tokyo, my great-grandfather would tell my obāchan and her siblings ghost stories, like those retold in Aoko Matsuda’s short story collection, Where the Wild Ladies Are.
I first read “Love & Solidarity” as a blurry EPUB on my phone, in spare moments snatched from my shifts at one of America’s largest retail chains.
It should be surprising that Fight Night, Miriam Toews’ eighth novel, is touted as a “feel good” book—the L.A. Times calls it the “Ted Lasso of novels, for better or worse.”
A beautiful 317-page gut punch, the Great Cleveland Novel if Cleveland will have it, Walker’s book is both a wistful eulogy and a searing indictment, one which stops short of proposing solutions because are you fucking kidding me?
The English edition of Leaving: A Poem from the Time of the Virus, originally published in Dutch, is a collaboration between the poet Cees Nooteboom, the translator David Colmer, and the visual artist Max Neuman.
Meridel LeSueur | North Star Country, Duell, Sloan, 1945 | reprint: The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series, University of Minnesota...
Éireann Lorsung | The Century | Milkweed Editions | 2020 | 144 Pages “Inclusivity in American systems comes with the...
Samuel Love, Editor | The Gary Anthology | Belt Publishing | September 2020 | 224 Pages Gary is a city...
John Bartlow Martin | Indiana: An Interpretation | Knopf | 1947 | 336 Pages | Bi-Centennial edition published by Indiana...
I spent the early years of my life in a rural part of northern Ohio with my underemployed mom, a severely disabled father, and a closeted gay racecar driver friend of my mom’s.