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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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). ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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reviewed by Kion You
DMZ Colony
Don Mee Choi
Wave Books, April 2020.
$20.00; 152pp.
ISBN: 978-1-94069-695-9
Although Don Mee Choi's new collection DMZ Colony weaves together oral history, memoir, ...
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reviewed by Mandana Chaffa
The Clearing
Allison Adair
Milkweed Press, June 2020.
$22.00; 88 pp.
ISBN: 978-1571315144
“What if this time instead of crumbs the girl drops / teeth, her own, what else does ...
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