by Matthew Cunningham-Cook

An Infected Wound

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In a country that continues to be the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, three new books grapple with what our nation’s war apparatus has wrought in our names. They attempt to figure how such acts have, with an air of permanence, seized our national imagination.

Writing Decline: Detroit City in Print

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Four books attempt to describe the Detroit of past and present: two good, one bad, one of such inconsequence its inclusion here is only justified as an act of collation.

Searching for Zion, Searching for Home

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In both the house of fiction and in all houses and homes, one still hears the deep stirring of the unhomely, of the destabilizing voices that rupture an unjust country.