This book, then, is a challenge to the status quo, and its lyrical diptychs prove the collaborative enterprise to be a success.

Sometimes the interesting stuff happens at the edges, where categories bump and scrape against each other.

Ma takes these mundane episodes and turns them into dreamscapes of subtly fractured logic and absurd literalism.

Because inequality threatens stability only in certain political systems, and because people can’t agree on morality, inequality by default becomes considered an economic rather than a political or moral problem.

You were born from the light barricaded inside our nation’s fading grace // Someone always placing hands on you //

As an Emergency Medicine resident working in NYC’s ERs, for me, fear is no longer the dominant emotion that COVID provokes.

The resilience needed to seek instead of believe, an author imbibing the world and the self openly, this is what impresses most in Hall’s debut.

For his new memoir, Predator, Ander Monson watched the eponymous 1987 action flick 146 times.

The ambulatory novel—positioned as it is between the flaneurial and the loco-descriptive—is generally a solitary affair.

Of the five million people who walk through the doors of the American Museum of Natural History each year (pre-pandemic figure), few probably give much thought to Kansas.

“The essay is a transgression,” begins Suzanne Roberts’s collection of personal essays, Animal Bodies.

Agronomists study the quality of soil: its water retention, mineral and nutrient content, the presence or absence of chemicals.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter was very excited to share that, under his own quarantine during the bubonic plague, Shakespeare wrote King Lear.

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.

Since at least the French colonial occupation of the 17th century, the Great Lakes Megaregion (GLM), that grand region spanning the middle of North America including parts of both the US and Canada, has maintained an unprecedented network of production and exchange of global importance.

Brad Listi’s novel about a guy named Brad Listi writing a novel opens with a confession: “This book took twelve years to write.”

Any nonfiction writer who undertakes to describe the past always face a preliminary methodological question: How to slice the pie.

Two new books revolve around one place.