by Tara Menon | Oct 26, 2017
Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar. Harper Collins. 2017 Can we ever escape the consequences of an immoral action, even if we think some good will come out of it? Thrity Umrigar, a prominent Indian-American writer, a professor, a journalist, and a Nieman...
by Carly Fraysier | Sep 14, 2017
Hemming Flames by Patricia Colleen Murphy Utah State University Press. 2016. 80 pp. Patricia Colleen Murphy’s first collection, Hemming Flames, is an intricate and intimate portrait of family, struggle, grief, guilt, and moving through it all. It’s a book about...
by David Tomas Martinez | Jul 31, 2017
Standoff by David Rivard Graywolf. 2016. David Rivard’s sixth collection of poetry, Standoff, released in 2016 by Graywolf Press totes an impressive number of glowing reviews and a heavy list of humble brag worthy laurels. Most recently it won the PEN/New England...
by Angela Palm | Jul 21, 2017
Not a Place on Any Map by Alexis Paige Vine Leaves Press. 2016. Organized as a series of forty flash essays anchored by their geographic location, Not a Place on Any Map by Brevity editor Alexis Paige charts a life that stutters and snags on trauma and...
by Natalie Mesnard | May 9, 2017
Pull Me Under By Kelly Luce FSG. 2016. Back when I taught English in Japan, the worst thing that happened to me was being denied entrance to a few restaurants. Kelly Luce, author of Pull Me Under (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), wasn’t so lucky. In this New York...
by J.R. Solonche | Apr 30, 2017
Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books. 80 pp. 2017. The great English critic Matthew Arnold once said that he had no respect for the Romantic poets–you know, Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron–because they didn’t know enough. He would not level such a charge against...
