Critic’s Notebook: A Blog Update and the Challenge of Digital Preservation
Review uploading and the challenge of digital preservation. Continue reading Critic’s Notebook: A Blog Update and the Challenge of Digital Preservation
Category: book reviews
Wednesday Poetry Corner: Heroic Dose, by Matt Longabucco
With a delicate balance between the everyday and the sublime, Heroic Dose by Matt Longabucco ensorcels the reader with narrative and serial poems. Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Heroic Dose, by Matt Longabucco
Translation Tuesdays: The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
The Nights are Quiet in Tehran, by Shida Bazyar, begins with the love story of Behsad and Nahid. Over the course of thirty years, the novel follows the lives of the couple and their children. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
Espresso Shots: There Are Reasons For This: A Novel, by Nini Berndt
There Are Reasons For This possesses a strange beauty. It tells a sad yet joyous love story amid ecological apocalypse and global economic collapse. Continue reading Espresso Shots: There Are Reasons For This: A Novel, by Nini Berndt
Espresso Shots: Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, by Katie Goh
Koh has written an engaging personal history of a mundane supermarket staple. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, by Katie Goh
Blog Update May 2025
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Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books — Part 3a
Colgate, through the use of accessibility symbology, turns what would be a standard collection of poems into a simulacra of a museum visit. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books — Part 3a
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books
The Relativity of Living Well, by Ashna Ali, is an angry and tender poetic screed written in the dark shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 1: Introduction
Normal is a trap. It’s also boring. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 1: Introduction
Espresso Shots: Perestroika: An Eye For an Eye, A Tooth For a Tooth, by João Cerqueira
Perestroika is a powerful fable about the liberating nature of art and the desire for representative democracy. It is dulled by endless monologuing by cardboard characters. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Perestroika: An Eye For an Eye, A Tooth For a Tooth, by João Cerqueira
The Driftless Area Review 