On Rewilding

Manacled to a Whelm

Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.

Awakening

Muriel Rukeyser’s recently uncovered novel tells the story of a young woman coming of age—politically, sexually, intellectually—in a country at war.

Love Letters

The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Microreview: Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets

151 sonnets about motherhood.

Self-Portait as Seismograph

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