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"In her newest poetry collection , the heiress / ghost acres, Lightsey Darst entangles the past, present and future, troubling the histories that she arose from, the complicated domestic and societal concerns of our current moment, and what it means to mother children into this world."
by Claire Jussel
April 18, 2023
"Burning Like Her Own Planet skillfully simmers as it reconsiders how a woman’s value as a mother, lover, and wife is often defined by her selflessness and abnegation. Through the lens of sacred Hindu mythology, Khanna illuminates the complexity of this timeless matter in a way that feels wholly contemporary while preserving its historic weight.."
by Allisa Cherry
April 18, 2023
"While Nuttall is unflinching in her presentations of the traumas suffered by her Indigenous characters, she also attends to the integrity, inventiveness, and grace of their responses.."
by Diane Josefowicz
April 11, 2023
POETRY REVIEW
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FICTION REVIEW
"Working with prose that is both highly lyrical yet approachable, Black Chameleon, creates a necessary conversation between past and present, between the speculation of myth and the extraordinary ordinariness of every day. Mouton has earned the skills of navigating a hostile world through magic and myth-making. Skills that were passed down to her through countless ancestors on her chain. Skills that allow her to blossom and live as they did."
NONFICTION REVIEW
"Y/N focuses on the intricate and timely infatuation with celebrities and total self-erasure. Yi explores the culture of fanfiction and celebrity idolatry with an even hand and intense introspection."
by Hannah Ryder
March 21, 2023
FICTION REVIEW
"Robert Lopez the author asks much more of Robert Lopez the man than anything he’s asking of the reader. From a distance of time and geography, Lopez’s Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere transcribes moments, folklores, and wives’ tales to weave a listener’s narrative of his home nation, Puerto Rico, in search of his own family history."
by Thomas Johnson
March 14, 2023
NONFICTION REVIEW
"…there is a crescendo of enlightenment where the women in these stories seem to take ownership of their identities in personal private ways"
by Corrine Watson
March 14, 2023
FICTION REVIEW
"Delicately complex and beautifully crafted explorations of the challenges to justice and the environment that often threaten personal wellbeing and geopolitical progress make this novel as timely as it is telling."
by Tara Friedman
March 1, 2023
FICTION REVIEW
"Readers navigate through loss and death with Lezza, peering over his shoulder as he recalls a lifetime of memories. Grief stories can drag in darkness, but Lezza isn’t afraid to dip into the light, letting his dry humor buoy the sadness without undermining it."
by Hannah Ryder
February 20, 2023
NONFICTION REVIEW
“Just as myths work to explain why things work the way they do, Murray’s numinous work shows us that poems offer us the same power: a path to follow that becomes a cosmological roadmap for any to investigate the mysteries of human traditions, cultural traits, and religious or supernatural beliefs.”
by Mikal Wix
February 14, 2023
POETRY REVIEW
by Yael Valenica Adana
March 22, 2023
