Early on in Tender Machines, her delicate, finely-boned, and yet fiery new poetry collection, J. Mae Barizo writes, “See how my desire thrives? / Feeding on every living thing.” Just out from…

Early on in Tender Machines, her delicate, finely-boned, and yet fiery new poetry collection, J. Mae Barizo writes, “See how my desire thrives? / Feeding on every living thing.” Just out from…
Things Fall Apart It was 2016. Trump was about to be elected, and my fifth…
In the opening lines of Madelaine Lucas’ debut novel, Thirst for Salt, an unnamed protagonist finds herself unusually tethered to memories of a former lover—Jude—when she stumbles across his photograph in an…
Martha Collins’s eleventh volume of poetry, Casualty Reports, was published by Pittsburgh in fall 2022; her…
In Max Porter’s Shy, the titular teenage protagonist has escaped from Last Chance, a “shite old mansion” converted into a school for “very disturbed young men.” A chorus of voices from Shy’s…
When I read or say the word “erasure,” I imagine the pink palimpsest in the…