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An Interview with Daniel Uncapher
“But then, because my father becomes more of a thread to this piece, it’s also a bit of a warning: be careful with people stuff, because it’s not clear how it always goes in the end.”
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Electing Myth
“Not only were there none of the clever or crass puns I had envisaged, there wasn’t even a real Donald Trump. American politics, it appeared, had become too absurd even for Halloween.” — Corey Van Landingham
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Additions to the World
“Can art be the nail, hammered into the present, on which the future might be hung? … The three collections reviewed here all have their own answers to such questions.” — Lloyd Wallace
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An Interview with Ji Hyun Joo
“I wanted to write a story about a young man who self-isolates and lives vicariously through his comic book character … As I fleshed out the character of Darwin, themes about power dynamics (whose experience is seen and unseen) came out more significantly.”
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Guest Editor Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian: Nonfiction Selections
“We often treat landscapes and other species as replaceable, interchangeable—a tree is a tree is a tree … Each of these four essays involve different stories of encounters with trees, and each is told very differently.”
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New Art on Old Ground: Irish Women Poets
“In work that is witty, subversive, socially conscious, and distinct, these poets navigate intimate subjects such as childbirth and the shock of motherhood, bereavement, rapture, environmental crisis, queer desire, art-making, and selfhood.”
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Corey Van Landingham on Reviewing:
An Interview“I was first drawn to writing book reviews seriously because I was looking for a new way to think.”
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Guest Editor Amanda Sarasien:
A Translation Portfolio“Think of this compendium as merely a curation of a curation, a small but tantalizing window onto the world.”
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An Interview with Albert Abonado
“I think of the white space in this poem like that, a place for the speaker to move the poem around, a place to disguise intent, to conceal an America that hides in the silences.”