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INTERVIEWS
- Kathleen Rooney: Pigeon as Text | interviewed by Caroline Kurdej
- Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, Kathleen Rooney, $17
FICTION REVIEWS
Exposition and The White Dress | Nathalie Léger | by Holly M. Wendt
Whiteout Conditions | Tariq Shah | by Garin Cycholl
I Am Here to Make Friends | Robert Long Foreman | by Nick Hilbourn
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas | Machado de Assis | by Chris Via
Panthers and the Museum of Fire | Jen Craig | by Julian Anderson
Difficult Light | Tomás González | by John Kazanjian
Anthropica | David Hollander | by Matthew Duffus






NONFICTION REVIEWS
The Fixed Stars | Molly Wizenberg | by Erin Lewenauer
Places I’ve Taken My Body | Molly McCully Brown | by Dustin Michael
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World | Branko Milanovic | by Robert Zaller
The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs | Jason Diamond | by Joseph Houlihan
Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, An Address Book, A Life | Brigitte Benkemoun | by Patrick James Dunagan
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend | Roy Morris, Jr. | by Richard Kostelanetz
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments | Aimee Nezhukumatathil | by Mandana Chaffa













POETRY REVIEWS
Blood Memory | Gail Newman
In The Lateness of the World | Carolyn Forché | by John Bradley
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems | N. Scott Momaday | by James P. Lenfestey
Underworld Lit | Srikanth Reddy | by Leah Souffrant
How To Hold a Flying River | Martha Kalin | by Elizabeth Robinson
Insecurity System | Sara Wainscott | by Fran Webber
A Nail the Evening Hangs On | Monica Sok | by Emily Mitamura
Pale Colors in a Tall Field | Carl Phillips | by Walter Holland
Life in a Country Album | Natalie Handal | by Dale Cottingham
Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers | Lois Beardslee | by Warren Woessner
Funeral Diva | Pamela Sneed | by Patrick James Dunagan
A Grave is Given Supper | Mike Soto | by Greg Bem
ART / MIXED GENRE / COMICS REVIEWS
Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 | Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre, eds., $30
Apsara Engine | Bishakh Som, $24