Matthew Desmond Reveals America’s Housing Disaster in Evicted
Could public housing reform be the key to reducing poverty, crime, and other social issues in the United States? In Evicted:Continue Reading
Category: Reviews
An African American in Post-Isherwood Berlin
“Berlin meant boys,” says Jed, who narrates Darryl Pinckney’s second novel, Black Deutschland. “Berlin meant white boys who wanted toContinue Reading
A Teen Explores Multiple Worlds in Emily Henry’s YA Debut
Time-traveling, world-hopping literature boasts an impressive best-of list—Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, and Madeleine L’Engle’sContinue Reading
Lovecraft Country Unearths Monsters Both Real and Imagined
For a writer who’s “harder-than-some-to-categorize,” Matt Ruff’s sixth book, Lovecraft Country, is a promiscuous mix of mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy,Continue Reading
Opulence and Opera in Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night
The Queen of the Night fittingly opens with opera singer Lilliet Berne at the height of her storied career, cheeredContinue Reading
Brian Evenson’s Dark Visions Return in ‘A Collapse of Horses’
Imagine you’ve suffered a traumatic head injury. After surgery, you return home to find a house that keeps changing when you aren’t looking.Continue Reading
Night-Sky Checkerboard, a Challenging Lesson in Existence
At first glance, Oh Sae-young’s poems start slow and simple—seemingly skirting along the surface of things deep, beautiful, and dark.Continue Reading
Nature and Humankind Collide in ‘The Lightkeepers’
Abbi Geni’s debut novel is merciless, strange, and coldly beautiful.
Failed Love Makes for Heartbreaking Poetry
“How the first time, they are awake. They are very nearly awake.” As her poem “Arithmetic” begins, so does JoanContinue Reading
‘The Unfinished World’ Will Crawl Under Your Skin
It would be silly to pigeonhole Amber Sparks‘s fiction into some fixed genre. Like Kelly Link and Heather Fowler, she writesContinue Reading
