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Race, Money, and the Pursuit of Poetry in the US Today: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz
Natasha Hakimi Zapata interviews Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz about their new poetry collections.
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Specific Solitudes: On Athena Dixon’s “The Loneliness Files”
Diana Ruzova reviews Athena Dixon’s “The Loneliness Files.”
L.A.’s Uncool School
Damon Willick returns to an important moment in Los Angeles art history and finds it more diverse than some might remember.
How Does Forgiveness Heal? On Myisha Cherry’s “Failures of Forgiveness”
Gregory Laski reviews Myisha Cherry’s “Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better.”
Ironic Detachment Will No Longer Do: On Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future”
Ian Ellison reviews Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War.”
Looking Back on “Art Inside”
Ginny Emiko Oshiro reflects on Annie Buckley’s Art Inside series and her work with the Prison Arts Collective.
The Body and Its Denizen: On Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking”
Emmeline Clein reviews Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.”
Marjorie Perloff and the Joy of Poetry: On “Circling the Canon” and “Infrathin”
Jan Baetens uses Marjorie Perloff’s two latest books, “Circling the Canon: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff” and “Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics,” to meditate on her long career as an advocate for innovative poetry.
Currant Jam, Customland, and the “Vagina Dream Cave”
A. J. Brown attends the latest alt-lit reading in Frogtown and is still picking stick-on face gems out of their hair.
Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn”
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman are joined by author Lexi Freiman to discuss her latest novel, "The Book of Ayn."
Revisiting Madonna-ology in the Era of Taylor Swift Studies
Michael Dango dissects the history and stakes of Madonna studies.
Long Live Pope.L, the Friendliest Black Artist in America
Reflections from a former student of Pope.L on his artistic practice.
Missed Opportunities and Underdevelopment: On Ashoka Mody’s “India Is Broken”
Dinyar Patel reviews Ashoka Mody’s “India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today.”
A Story That We Only Think We Know: On Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear”
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.”
Backseat Filming
Emma dePaulo Reid explores what it might mean to experience the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the backseat of a van.
Instruments of Unknowing: On John Lee Clark’s “How to Communicate” and JJJJJerome Ellis’s “Aster of Ceremonies”
Michael Weinstein reviews “How to Communicate” by John Lee Clark and “Aster of Ceremonies” by JJJJJerome Ellis.
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