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.
A. J. Brown attends the latest alt-lit reading in Frogtown and is still picking stick-on face gems out of their hair.
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman are joined by author Lexi Freiman to discuss her latest novel, "The Book of Ayn."
Michael Dango dissects the history and stakes of Madonna studies.
Reflections from a former student of Pope.L on his artistic practice.
Dinyar Patel reviews Ashoka Mody’s “India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today.”
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.”
Emma dePaulo Reid explores what it might mean to experience the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the backseat of a van.
Michael Weinstein reviews “How to Communicate” by John Lee Clark and “Aster of Ceremonies” by JJJJJerome Ellis.
Mike Rodelli considers John Keahey’s “Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire.”
1:1 invites writers to reflect on a single work of art with focus, care, and imagination to expand how we view, receive, and write about art.
Julie Park reflects on the process of bringing out her book on the 18th-century camera obscura.
Elizabeth Gonzalez James reviews Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires.”
Haig Chahinian interviews Nancy Agabian about her new book “The Fear of Large and Small Nations.”
Conor Truax reviews the republication of Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s 1931 novel “The Fire Within.”
Jason Ray Carney reviews Jordan Peele’s “Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror.”
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