LA Review of Books
Review of Percival Everett‘s The Trees: “an indictment of America’s racial terrorism masquerading as police procedural and slapstick comedy.”
Review of Percival Everett‘s The Trees: “an indictment of America’s racial terrorism masquerading as police procedural and slapstick comedy.”
Read up on U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s The Owl and the Nightingale, a translation of a medieval English debate poem.
Review of Frank Bidart’s Against Silence: “our greatest living poet of the flesh assessing fear of flesh’s end, of desire’s flame dimming to mere flicker.”
Donald Antrim’s One Friday In April included on this list of 9 New Books We Recommend This Week.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and Torrey Peters‘ Detransition, Baby included on The 10 Best Fiction Books […]
Announcing the reveal for the cover of Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust, her first major novel since 2017, which will be published in 2022.
Frank Bidart’s Against Silence included in this roundup of Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself.
Percival Everett has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In The Trees he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching […]
A new poem by Deborah Landau: “So whatever’s the opposite of a Buddhist that’s what I am. Kindhearted, yes, but knee deep in gloom.”
Review of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois: “If this isn’t the Great American Novel, it’s a mighty attempt at […]