There is perhaps no archetype of sisterly devotion as enduringly popular as Little Women’s March girls.

“A man can dwell inside a city,” writes Conor Bracken in “Shock & Awe,” “and leave untouched / but what man is there can dwell // within the chambers of another man / and stay himself?”

On the cover of Angelo Maneage’s THE IMPROPER USE OF PLATES are five dark circles—appropriately, very plate-like—set against an off-white background for contrast.

It should come as little surprise to fans of Kathryn Davis that at the beginning of her latest book, Aurelia, Aurélia, she expresses her fondness for both the television series Lost and the middle section of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse.

I first begin to write about Kate Zambreno’s Drifts in the midst of a New England blizzard, and it’s hard to imagine better weather for reflecting on the ars undulatis of a book so intensely interested in the fleeting, snowflake material of life: days upon days that pile up and melt away.

I am not what you want for. I am a shadow / Built to remind you of what you need.

Asad Haider is Assistant Professor of Politics at York University, a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso Books, 2018; reprint: Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology, Verso Books, 2022).

Cody-Rose Clevidence’s Aux Arc Trypt Ich is a book of three books, a standout achievement in the poet’s relatively brief career of un-relatively prolific output—in addition to two chapbooks, the triptych is the author’s fourth full-length collection, and their third since 2018.

For climate archaeologists, collecting core samples from arctic ice offers a look back in time and a glimpse into an uncertain future.

Another contender for a literary novel that may offer an adequate appraisal of and response to our climate crisis is Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star.

is greater than walking my woebegoneedness .

Cookie Mueller was a writer and artist of many persuasions.

Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper is prefaced with the poem “The Seeds Speak,” told from the perspective of stored seeds.

Most patients aren’t in as dire straits as the narrator of “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” no. But due to embarrassment or fear of being judged, lying to one’s doctor is prevalent.

Susan Briante’s Defacing the Monument has won numerous awards since its publication by Noemi Press in August 2020.

Black artists have it bad in Cleveland.

Neuroscientists tell us that what comes to the retina of the eye is only a part—and not even the largest part—of what we see.

Christine Hume’s experimental autobiography Saturation Project is about the dissolving of its subject—or maybe, even, The Subject.

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes states that human life is “nasty, brutal, and short” because people, left to their own devices, are naturally vicious.

“There’s a long version and a short version of how I lost all my money,” says Michael Mixner, the male protagonist in Adam Wilson’s Sensation Machines, 44 pages into the author’s latest novel.