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A Review of The If Borderlands by Elise Partridge

August 21, 2017

F. Daniel Rzicznek

(New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2017) There is a bitter pleasure to encountering the work of a “new” poet – enjoying and even loving their work – only to learn that the poet is deceased. The poems then … Continued

A Review of Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz

November 30, 2015

Amelia Fisher

(New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2015) I love eavesdropping. Who doesn’t? It may be a guilty pleasure, but as far as vices go there are plenty worse to choose from. There’s something so fascinating about sitting in a public … Continued

A Review of The Rim of Morning by William Sloane

October 8, 2015

Cory Johnston

(The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror. New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2015) In the early 1930s, physicists discovered something in nature that, even now, seems to me to be completely absurd. They called their discovery … Continued

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