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A Review of Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

June 3, 2019

Richard Osler

(Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2019) We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: … Continued

A Review of The Man from Kinvara by Tess Gallagher

October 30, 2017

Abigail Deutsch

(Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2010) I’ve always loved moments of crisis in literature—episodes that force characters to reevaluate and redefine themselves, and to recognize the false pretenses of their previous existences, or of any claim to personal consistency. (One of … Continued

A Review of Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays by Eula Biss

July 3, 2017

Marion Wyce

(Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2009) “Even now it is an impossible idea, that we are all connected, all of us,” writes Eula Biss in Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, a provocative exploration of race in America. Biss is … Continued

An Interview with Jeffery Renard Allen, Author of Song of the Shank

April 8, 2015

Jessie Vail Aufiery

When I saw Jeff Allen in Miami this fall, he gave me a copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s great book Americanah, in which the protagonist, a blogger, writes “Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, … Continued

A Review of The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

December 25, 2014

F. Daniel Rzicznek

(Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2012) As a writer, I create yearlong, but because of my position as an instructor of English composition, summer remains my season of “play,” three months when I treat writing like a full-time job. The giddiness … Continued

A Review of The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliot

October 9, 2014

Jena Salon

(The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Mood, Masochism, and Murder. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2009) In my husband’s family if you’re reading a book and put it down on the coffee table to go get a snack, your book is fair game. … Continued

A Review of On Immunity by Eula Biss

September 25, 2014

Cory Johnston

(On Immunity: An Inoculation. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2014) In July of 2014, employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered, in a cold storage facility unused for decades, several vials that contained living strains of the smallpox virus. When confronted with the … Continued

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