Sarah Ruhl wrote Love Poems in Quarantine to mark the passage of time when all familiar landmarks disappeared. From the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the murder of George Floyd, to months of simultaneous quarantine and protest, this is—in free verse and form, lamentation and meditation—a book of days, a survival kit for spiritual malady.
Cate Marvin's brilliant fourth poetry collection exists just outside of calamity. Set between the violent realm of patriarchy and the bright otherworld of female agency and survival, these are poems of pointed humor and quick intellect, radical exposure, and (re)vision. At Marvin's table, the knife of domesticity becomes a threat, sharpened and shined.
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count.
Former best friends Scott and Errol meet unexpectedly at Oso Lake, a remote Canadian fly-fishing paradise where, five years before, fresh out of college, they had the time of their lives. Their situations, though, have changed, their high hopes quashed by workaday realities and, in Errol's case, marriage to Claire, who has come with him trying to stave off divorce.
Toni Morrison, born Chloe A. Wofford, was a towering figure in the world of literature when she entered A. J. Verdelle's life. Their literary friendship was a young writer's dream—simultaneously exhilarating, intimidating, fulfilling, and challenging. The relationship crossed generations, spanned several cycles in life, exhibited high and low notes, reached and dipped, and found its way.
On Autumn Lake collects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring Transcendentalism tradition. Douglas Crase's prose is rich with conviction and desire, inspired as John Yau wrote, "the kind of attention usually reserved for poetry."
N. is a novella in the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen, which investigates the ways we activate space through language. Expertly employing historical surrealism to critique orientalism, megalomaniac masculinity, and colonialism, Van der Vliet Oloomi rages against the abandonment of the natural world in favor of digital realms with satirical humor and restless energy.
Ante body is a poetics of [un]rest. A project that started as an exploration of how the psychological impacts of migration and complex traumas manifest as autoimmune disease and grew into a critique of the ongoing unjust conditions that brought on the global pandemic.
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune?
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic, food writer, and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the church committee and their candidates for a new minister--and becomes its own media sensation.
