Criticism

Microreview: Tarfia Faizullah, Seam

Giving rape survivors a voice.

  • Carina del Valle Schorske

An Extra Life

Jorie Graham's From the New World

  • Katie Peterson

American Cynicism

And its cure.

  • Jess Row

Life Sings with Many Voices

Eduardo Galeano began as a propagandist, convinced of a single dogmatic truth. He became an artist.

  • Nathan J. Robinson

Can a Poem Listen?

Variations on Being-White

  • Ailish Hopper

Eight Essays on the Face

Frida Kahlo, Manet’s Olympia, and more. 

  • Virginia Konchan

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The Sweet and Angry Music of Amiri Baraka

On SOS: Poems, 1961­–2013.

  • William J. Harris

Cold Comfort

Three new books thread feminist impulses through narratives of precarity and desolation.

  • Natalie Shapero

Unruly Thoughts

Kimiko Hahn's Brain Fever

  • Benjamin Landry

Into Darkness

Nature, Risk, and the Birth of Creativity

  • Jenny Hendrix

Microreview: Martha Silano, Reckless Lovely

Poems that begin with a bang.

  • Lisa K. Perdigao

“Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”

W. H. Auden’s struggle with politics.

  • Robert Huddleston

The Ugly Truth

Even if the facts are wrong, the feelings in Selma are right.

  • Alan A. Stone

Microreview: Sawako Nakayasu, The Ants

Poems that make a tiny insect the center of the world. 

  • Jennifer Kronovet

Get Lost

Caroline Bergvall's Drift.

  • Dana Levin

Microreview: Dodie Bellamy, The TV Sutras

Television as aphorism.

  • Iris Cushing

The Rhetoric of Cowardice

Recovering its usage.

  • Kyle Williams

Death Mask

On Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

I Am Nick Drake Now

Drake was an artist so out of step with his own time that he came to be in lockstep with things not bound by time.

  • Colin Fleming

The Rise of the University Museum

Can campus galleries save the art museum?

  • Alana Shilling-Janoff

My Body Is a Cage

Mixed Martial Arts as Greek Tragedy

  • Jenny Hendrix

A Bit of Proust

Anne Carson's The Albertine Workout.

  • Benjamin Landry

Microreview: Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Chord Box

Poems to make music to.

  • Carina del Valle Schorske

The Last of the Great English Adventurers

Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road

  • Roger Boylan
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