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Wreck & Order

Book Review by McKay McFadden

Wreck & Order, by Hannah Tennant-Moore. Hogarth, 2016. 304 pages, $17.

 

In Hannah Tennant-Moore’s debut novel Wreck & Order, the narrator Elsie drifts between boyfriends, low-paying publishing jobs, trips abroad, and drinks as she searches for pleasure and …

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

Book Review by Sarah Jordan Stout

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, Timothy Morton. Columbia University Press, 2016. $30, 208 pages.

Timothy Morton says in his new book, Dark Ecology, that we must nibble away like field mice on destructive patterns of …

Down to the Dark River: Contemporary Poems about the Mississippi River

Book Review by Douglas Ray

Down to the  Dark River: Contemporary Poems about the Mississippi River, edited by Philip C. Kolin and Jack B. Bedell. Louisiana Literature Press, 2015. $18, 232 pages.

 

Growing up in central Mississippi, I was far enough removed from the …

Crooked Letter i, Coming Out in the South

Book Review by Marisa Clogher

Crooked Letter i, Coming Out in the South, edited by Connie Griffin. NewSouth Books, 2015. $10, 208 pages.

Crooked Letter i, an anthology of personal essays edited by Connie Griffin, sets out to construct a narrative in which queerness …

The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories

Book Review, Room 220 by Jeremy Tuman

The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories, by Juyanne James. Broken Levee Books, 2015. $15, 208 pages.

Images of a South Louisiana experience, in New Orleans and in the country, some surprising, some familiar, emerge throughout Juyanne James’ debut collection of …

Gog

Book Review by Andrea Syzdek

Gog, by Brandi George. Black Lawrence Press, 2015. $14, 75 pages.

Gut-wrenching and phantasmagoric, Brandi George’s first full-length poetry collection, Gog, articulates the experience of a young female growing up in an oppressive contemporary rural environment. These poems ask …

Incorrect Merciful Impulses

Book Review by Dante Di Stefano

Incorrect Merciful Impulses, by Camille Rankine. Copper Canyon Press, 2016. $16, 80 pages.

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the neo-conceptual artist, Jenny Holzer, created several series of posters and broadsheets, consisting entirely of …

Complicated Grief

Book Review, Room 220 by Kristin Sanders

Complicated Grief, by Laura Mullen. Solid Objects, 2015. $18, 120 pages.

Laura Mullen’s writing, especially her emphasis on genre hybridity, urges readers to face emotional and intellectual discomfort by committing to the (perceived) challenges of reading contemporary poetry and …

The Seventh Day

Book Review by Scott Lang

The Seventh Day, by Yu Hua. Translated by Allan H. Barr. Pantheon Books, 2013. $25, 213 pages.

Yu Hua’s latest novel The Seventh Day opens with an almost apocalyptic first line: “The fog was thick when I left my …

Fractals

Book Review by Lynn Marie Houston

Fractals, by William Bradley. Lavender Ink, 2016. $16, 67 pages.

Some of the greatest problems of our current time are born of a toxic notion of masculinity—one that chooses violence as a way to resolve disputes, one that is …

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