Criticism & Features

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen (NYRB) I know the moment I fell

frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss (Graywolf) When Diane Seuss’s latest book, frank: sonnets, dropped, it quickly became one of the most talked-about collections of the year, proving that the continually-reinvented

The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza (University of Nebraska) Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, this encyclopedic debut collection intertwines two central themes: the doppelganger character

Cutlish by Rajiv Mohabir (Four Way) Our need to belong is fundamental, and we find ways to make space for ourselves in society.Queer Indo-Caribbean poet Rajiv Mohabir’s poetry blends language,

The Renunciations by Donika Kelly (Graywolf) Though Donika Kelly’s second collection, The Renunciations, contains poems as taut and carefully controlled by the poet as any composed by the talented peers

Ceive by B.K. Fischer (BOA) Ceive is first-rate science fiction. Ceive is a book-length story, a novella in verse. Ceive is absolutely contemporary, a way of thinking about the near future and the far future,

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan (FSG) There’s something undeniably satisfying about reading a book that presents a tidy argument, one that arrives at

Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl (Verso) How has the rise and unrivaled dominance of Amazon changed not only what and how we

Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul?: Essays by Jesse McCarthy (Liveright) The title of Jesse McCarthy’s debut essay collection, Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?, reads as both

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski (Bloomsbury) Critics who wrote about the prolific English novelist and essayist Jenny Diski (1947-2016) during her lifetime often