Criticism

Of Fishiness, Flesh, and the Radical Undead

  • Jennifer Scappettone

Microreview: Roger Reeves, King Me

Mouths, metaphor, and metonymy.

  • Virginia Konchan

Let’s Be Real

Two books by Roxane Gay reflect on the state of feminism.

  • Lucy McKeon

Radical Feeling in the Poetry of World War I

Selections from war poets.

  • Len Gutkin

Microreview: Kevin Young, Book of Hours

Tim Wood reviews Book of Hours, by Kevin Young.

  • Tim Wood

Muted Protest

  • Tobi Haslett

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“You have been here some time”: Poetics of Failure and Song

Epanorthosis and song might finally be thought together.

  • Lindsay Turner

A Thousand Labyrinths

Peter Gizzi's In Defense of Nothing

  • Ange Mlinko

Microreview: Elizabeth Robinson, On Ghosts

Part poetry collection, part essay.

  • Christine Shan Shan Hou

Oli Hazzard’s “Beyonsense”

One of the most exciting and original developments in UK poetry in years.

  • Stephen Ross

Microreview: Harryette Mullen, Urban Tumbleweed

The poetry of a flâneuse.

  • Anna Moschovakis

Nation and Body

Julie Carr's Rag

  • Karinne Keithley Syers

Cheap Signaling

Class conflict and diction in avant-garde poetry

  • Daniel Tiffany

Microreview: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, TwERK

The tension between hype and substance. 

  • Mia You

Are You Jewish?

John Turturro's Fading Gigolo.

  • Alan A. Stone

Samuel Beckett, the Early Years

A lost story shows the young writer struggling in Joyce's shadow

  • Roger Boylan

The Lost Girls

Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen.

  • Alan A. Stone

Forget O’Hara

Lonely Christopher’s Death and Disaster Series.

  • Felix Bernstein

Mark Ford and the Real World

Ford helps American readers take pleasure in seeing with fresh eyes a country they know too well to notice.

  • Scott Bartley

Toxicity, Vulnerability, Intimacy

An essay and interview with CM Burroughs

  • Megan Fernandes
  • CM Burroughs

Style Over Substance

On translating Proust.

  • Leland de la Durantaye

Without Time

The long-awaited Endarkenment collects poems written over a span of thirty years.

  • Samuel Amadon

Microreview: Lisa Olstein, Little Stranger

Poems that hum beneath the ordinary.

  • Benjamin Landry

The New Wave of Sad Pizzazz: Three British Poets

Twentieth-century British poetry had many virtues, but it was not overburdened with a sense of style.

  • Dai George
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