Poet of the Impossible: Paul Celan at 100
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris, with commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara WiedemannFarrar, Straus and...
View ArticleReading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization
This year has not only seen revived interest in Albert Camus’s novel The Plague (1947), it also marks a key anniversary: Camus’s death at the age of forty-six in a sudden car crash sixty years ago. The...
View ArticleReturn to the Gay Underground
Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis CooperDiarmuid HesterUniversity of Iowa Press, $39.95 (paperback)
View ArticleUsing Formalism to Explore U.S. Systems of Power
What He Did in Solitary Amit MajmudarKnopf, $27 (cloth)
View ArticleAngels of History
I remember the first time I ever saw a ghost. I was tiptoeing through the remnants of a burnt-out row house in Washington, D.C., in one of the neighborhoods where, in the 1990s, one could still discern...
View ArticlePoetry in the Critical Zone
Art in Time Cole SwensenNightboat Books, $18.95 (paper)Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds.ZKM / The Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and...
View ArticleAutofiction’s First Boom Was in Turn-of-the-Century Japan
An I-Novel Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters CarpenterColumbia University Press, $20 (paper)
View ArticleQueer Shoulders at the Wheel
Yours Presently: TheSelected Letters of John WienersMichael Seth Stewart, ed.University of New Mexico Press, $75 (cloth)“How can a poet be renowned but unknown, adored but elided?” asks editor Michael...
View ArticleAdrienne Rich’s Solitudes
I met Adrienne Rich when she chose my first book of poems for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. We first spoke just before New Year’s Day in 2000. In short order, we became friends...
View ArticleWorking on Our Primal Scream
Trots and BonnieShary FlennikenNew York Review Books, $39.95 (cloth)
View ArticleMike Nichols and the American Century
Mike Nichols: A Life Mark HarrisPenguin Random House, $35 (cloth)
View ArticleEveryday Mojo Letters to Yusef
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2021 Yusef KomunyakaaFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (cloth) START OF THE SIXTEENTH DRAFT OF AN EXCESSIVELY WORDED DOCUMENT TITLED “EVERYDAY...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Struggle
“A revolution is unfurling—America’s unfinished revolution.” These words of A. Philip Randolph are the first you read in Nat Hentoff’s liner notes to the legendary 1960 jazz album We Insist!: The...
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Elegies for Empire
Obit Victoria ChangCopper Canyon Press, $17 (paper)Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie DiazGraywolf Press, $16 (paper)
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