The Impossible Fairy Tale, by Han Yujoo (translated from the Korean by Janet Hong). Graywolf Press, 2017. $16, 192 pages.
In a moment when we are questioning the authority of narrators both on the page and in the world, Han …
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, 2018. 304 pages, $26.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is the story of a nameless young woman as she attempts to engage in a year-long experiment in …
Dog Symphony
Dog Symphony, by Sam Munson. New Directions, 2018. 132 pages, $14.95.
Sam Munson’s Dog Symphony is a novel about state violence and hegemony, citizenship, and how these things disintegrate human personal identity. Its protagonist, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (named after the …
Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg
Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, by Stephanie Dickinson. New Michigan Press, 2013. 63 pages, $9.
At the age of 17 in 1957, Jean Seberg was cast to play Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s film Saint Joan. A …
Spool
Spool, by Robert Cole. Oversteps Books, 2013. 58 pages.
Robert Cole has published two small collections of poems: Inheritance published by Mandeville Press (1995) and Cafard published by Community of Poets. His first full-length book Spool was published in …
Prayer Book of the Anxious
Prayer Book of the Anxious, by Josephine Yu, Elixir Press, 2016. 96 pp, $17.
In the middle of Josephine Yu’s Prayer Book of the Anxious, the speaker in “Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless” pleads for this …
Remembering Grand Isle
Remembering Grand Isle, by Elson Trahan, Jr. Portier Gorman Publications, 2017. $20, 220 pages. (Available by calling 985-632-3023.)
I drove to the South Lafourche Branch of the Lafourche Parish Public Library on a beautiful Saturday morning in February. It …
The City of Lost Fortunes
The City of Lost Fortunes, by Bryan Camp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 384 pages, $24.
The city of New Orleans has a particular ability to suck visitors into its own narrative. Maybe it’s the city’s abundance of stories that …
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from, by Jill Osier. Bull City Press, 2018. 30 pages, hardcover $25, softcover $12.
Jill Osier’s slim new collection from begins to work on us before even we read a word. Against a stark white background, a horse bucks …
The Leftovers
The Leftovers, by Shaelyn Smith. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018. 232 pages, $16.
There are tons of reasons to read art criticism: you can learn about culture, formulate arguments, or anxiously over-prepare for a Tinder date with a …
