Review: LONESOME LIES BEFORE US by Don Lee
Don Lee’s latest novel proves to be a deceptively nuanced tale about the disconnect between our dreams and the limits of how far we’ll go to obtain them.
Author: Guest Reviewer
Review: HARD CHILD by Natalie Shapero
These often dark and deeply personal poems are armored with comedic turns and allusions to our “rotting times.”
Review: STOMACHS by Luna Miguel (Translated by Luis Silva)
There are times for sadness and severity and all things bleak, and what do we do then? Luna Miguel might not have solutions but Stomachs reminds us that melancholy is not always destructive.
A Conversation With Margot Livesey and Whitney Terrell
Whitney Terrell’s 2016 book The Good Lieutenant was selected as a best book of the year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and Refinery 29. Terrell also happens to be my former student.
Review: LIVING IN THE WEATHER OF THE WORLD by Richard Bausch
While not all of the fourteen stories in his new collection are a fair illustration of his ability, the balance demonstrates, once again, why he deserves a lasting place among American literary masters.
Review: OPTION B: FACING ADVERSITY, BUILDING RESILIENCE, AND FINDING JOY by Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
Indeed, the theme of moving on—but not necessarily past—tragedy is her central message here.
ERNESTO by Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba died four years after writing Ernesto (1953), and it went unpublished until 1975 when its content would have been far less radical than in 1953.
Review: LIKE THAT by Matthew Yeager
One hundred pages, six poems. A hand holding a small ball of foil reaches across the center of the cover, finger stretched, insistent or offering.
Review: THE RULES DO NOT APPLY by Ariel Levy
A staff writer for The New Yorker, Ariel Levy describes her beat as “women who are too much.