Microreviews: February/March 2021
Lily Arnell
Feb 1 2021
Acorn Yoko Ono Yoko Ono’s poetry collection conjures an unrelenting nostalgia for the towering shadow of bewilderment that subverts my assumptions about the world. Her ...
Selections from The Field
Dec 2, 2019
Unfortunately, I Like It Too
Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, published in 2017, has been one of the great literary success stories of the Brexit and Trump eras, especially among readers who, ...
Apr 1, 2020
I Celebrate Myself, and Erase Myself
In its broadest sense, a temple is a place devoted to a specific and elevated purpose, one not necessarily limited to the spiritual. Maybe it’s fair to say that what I’ve ...
Jun 1, 2020
Art by Women About Women Making Art About Women
T he first lesbian movie I loved was Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s sumptuous 1994 film starring a young Kate Winslet as a dangerously charismatic schoolgirl who ...
Oct 1, 2020
Bookselling in the End Times…Again
PRINT IS DEAD In his late-fifteenth-century woodcut of a danse macabre, Matthias Huss depicts Death striding into a printer’s shop to remind a bookseller and his colleagues ...
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Stephen Sparks
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