Omovo seems in many ways detached from the day to day . . . That might be the best way to handle yourself in a world where baffling violence is as much a part of life as a breeze or birdsong.
I think so much of growing up is just looking at other people who are doing things you wish you could be doing and wondering how they got there. But then of course you have to find your own place in that. And that’s a tricky thing to do.
Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World – Eliane Brum
Without its forests intact, the Earth faces collapse, just as the mind, body, and heart will crumble if our lungs rot ahead of schedule.
Everything I Never Wanted to Know – Christine Hume
The experience of reading Hume’s essays powerfully mimics how it feels to live in a world saturated with sexual violence.
Bruno’s Conversion – Tsipi Keller
At the heart of Jewish American fiction since 1945 are questions of assimilation, identity, faith, and the Holocaust. A handful of contemporary writers continue to engage these themes with renewed ambivalence, both advancing and complicating inherited literary style.
When we talk about colonialism it seems like it’s something from the past, but it’s not. . . . It is part of our life in a very remarkable way, very present even today.
Black Observatory – Christopher Brean Murray
A mixture of flash fiction-like prose poems and sensory-laden verse, the collection itself is the black observatory.
A Spring of Poetry: Capsule Reviews
Eight capsule reviews of poetry and prose works from Ugly Duckling Presse, above/ground press, Subpress Editions, Tupelo Press, and Baobab Press
Oblique Memories: Montserrat Roig and Literature of Forgetting
But, really, how many of us in Europe are aware of our own country’s dark histories?
Lament for Julia – Susan Taubes
Julia’s disappearance is inseparable from the gaze that has described her, instructed her, reproached her, bemoaned her, and reveled in her for . . . 125 pages.