Review

Accepting the Abyss in “Things in Nature Merely Grow”
In the Vortex with Shelby Hinte, author of Howling Women
Seeking Freedom through Love and Destruction: Nettie Jones’ “Fish Tales”
Heightened Performance in Katie Kitamura’s “Audition”
“All this time, and I was still alive”: On Maggie Nelson’s ‘Pathemata Or, The Story of My Mouth’
Diverting the Flood of History: Ada Palmer’s “Inventing the Renaissance”
Redefining the “F” word in “The Portable Feminist Reader”
A Paradise Built on Quicksand in Madeleine Watts’s “Elegy, Southwest”
The Magic of the Mundane: Clarice Lispector’s “Covert Joy”
Competing Childhood Narratives in “We Could Be Rats” by Emily Austin