Reviews

Water – Rumi

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Rumi’s poems shuttle across time, place, belief, and tradition to refresh and guide our wearied spirits

Last Week in End Times Cinema – A. S. Hamrah

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Read through a “full year of wrong thinking, bad decisions, and man-made disasters” and you will get some sense of just how dim Hollywood’s lights and luminaries are.

Chilco – Daniela Catrileo

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[Catrileo] is interested in impurity as political potentiality

Marginalia – Naomi Washer

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By its very nature the avant garde is unknowable

Supersaurio – Meryem El Mehdati

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SUPERSAURIO celebrates the potential of online forms of writing for subversive joy

The Trembling Hand – Mathelinda Nabugodi

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Nabugodi resists both melodrama and academic neutrality. Her approach is closer to a physics of feeling

The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander

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Alexander reminds us that the human experience is bound to a rich history, and not just a matter of individual experience.

Good & Safe – Liesl Ujvary

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[World Poetry Books; 2025] Tr. from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabela Dinwoodie On the nine-hour train ride back to Berlin from Vienna, a young man takes the seat next to me. He asks whether I think it’s safe to leave a suitcase back by the train’s entrance, out of sight from our seats. […]

Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary – Maddie Ballard

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… Of all art forms, clothing is particularly close to the self.

Algarabía – Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

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His hero does not fight monstrous beings, but those who marginalize him as monstrous.