An Autobiography of Captivity

Shane McCrae's new book, a finalist for the National Book Award, is an astonishingly precise account of a complex emotional past.

Accessible Difficulty

Hoa Nguyen's new poetry spans the cosmological and the political–and makes life seem profoundly necessary.

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