I Got Somebody in Staunton, stories by William Henry Lewis (Amistad): In his second collection, Lewis sketches out a complicated and often mesmerizing view of black America with lyrical, sensual language. Traveling up and down the paths of the Great Migration, from South to North, from small towns in Tennessee to Bed-Stuy, these ten stories…
Any Holy City , poems by Mark Conway (Silverfish): Conway’s debut book, Any Holy City, maps a rich and mysterious landscape haunted by ghosts—ghosts of the dead and the living, of addiction, sacrifice, of loss and love. This place, however, is very much alive with a poet fully engaged in the natural and not-so-natural world…
Chase Twichell recommends Dark Under Kiganda Stars, poems by Lilah Hegnauer: “This first book is a startling lyrical account of a young Catholic American student’s time in Uganda, where she taught English in the Kiganda Highway Secondary School and assisted at a medical clinic in a remote country village. She was given several classes of…
Madeline DeFrees recommends Cain’s Daughters, poems by Phyllis Collier: “From the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the labor camps of California, Collier follows the migration and celebrates the hard lives of pioneering women. Cain’s Daughters is a singular example of the way art transcends and transforms the world of fact.” (Blue Unicorn)
Ellen Bryant Voigt recommends In the Blue Pharmacy, essays by Marianne Boruch: “The same capacious mind on display in Boruch’s selected poems is everywhere available here, as is her characteristic meditative structure, one that circles its subjects and their implications without any sort of didactic overreaching. In ‘The Rage to Reorder,’ the last piece in…
Philip Levine recommends Nobody’s Baby, stories by Leo Litwak: “Leo Litwak, the author of the finest memoir of WWII combat I have read by an American, The Medic, again demonstrates his superb gift for narrative in this astonishing collection of short stories, Nobody’s Baby. His insights into the complex motives of human behavior and the…
Dan Wakefield recommends The Writing on the Wall, a novel by Lynn Sharon Schwartz: "The Writing on the Wall is a novel that mines art and understanding out of the 9/11 nightmare, bringing the effects of the tragedy into individual lives of credible characters. The author’s earlier masterwork, Disturbances in the Field, which follows the…
Margot Livesey recommends Tenney’s Landing, stories by Catherine Tudish: “I don’t know quite how Catherine Tudish does it, but somehow in this remarkable collection of linked stories she evokes the people and places of Tenney’s Landing so vividly and completely that every reader will surely want to take up residence in this small Pennsylvania river…
Mary Gordon, Pearl, a novel: In Gordon’s haunting new book, a woman reexamines her assumptions about politics and the church when she goes to Dublin to save her daughter, who is on a hunger strike. (Pantheon)
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