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reviewed by Olga Livshin Letdown Sonia Greenfield White Pine Press, March 2020 $17.00; 102 pp. ISBN: 9781945680359 I first came to Sonia Greenfield's writing after reading her prose poem that begins ...

Review: Letdown by Sonia Greenfield

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reviewed by Jeffery Berg Daddy Michael Montlack NYQ Books, September 2020 $18.95; 88 pp. ISBN: 978-1630450595 Michael Montlack’s Daddy offers a prism of perspectives through straightforward, pithy, ...

Review: Daddy by Michael Montlack

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review of books by Megan Cummins and Annie Ernaux If the Body Allows It Megan Cummins University of Nebraska Press, September 2020 $21.95; 270pp. ISBN: 9781496222831   Happening Annie ...

Re-Narrating the Lives of Women by Jenessa Abrams

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reviewed by Joshua Sokol Young Heroes of the Soviet Union Alex Halberstadt Random House, March 2020 $28.00; 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1400067060 Digging through the innermost parts of one’s memory is not a ...

Review: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by Alex Halberstadt

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reviewed by Sally Smits Masten Monster Colloquia Robert Campbell Hellbox Publications, April 2020 $7.99; 34 pp. ISBN: 9781734888904 For about a year, while we were binge-watching The Walking Dead, I ...

Review: Monster Colloquia by Robert Campbell

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reviewed by Sarah Carey Kyrie Ellen Bryant Voigt W.W. Norton and Company, 1995 $17.95; 79 pp. ISBN: 9780393037968 If past is prologue … the saying goes. If we knew then, what we know now…, we might ...

Review: Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt

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reviewed by Brian Finney Utopia Avenue David Mitchell Random House, July 14, 2020 $17.28; 592 pp. ISBN: 978-0812997439 It is five years since David Mitchell released his last novel, Slade House (2015). ...

Review: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

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reviewed by Rochelle Spencer Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Future curated by Natasha Marin McSweeney’s, February 2020. $14.00; 216pp. ISBN: 978-1-94421-184-4 At around 3:15pm on a ...

Review: Black Imagination curated by Natasha Marin

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reviewed by Sonya Lara  How to Pronounce Knife Short stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa Little, Brown and Company, April 2020. $26.00; 192pp. ISBN: 978-0-316-42213-0 How to Pronounce Knife by ...

Review: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

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