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When the Ancient Greeks Go Rogue

by Mark Scroggins February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

David Hadbawnik and Anne Carson aren’t aiming to produce new schoolroom translations of the classics; they’ve reimagined these ancient texts in the light of our violent and chaotic contemporaneity.

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Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals

by Carl Little August 7, 2021August 6, 2021

Thalia Field’s poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.

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Missives From the War to End All Wars

by Joseph Donahue January 9, 2021January 8, 2021

Elizabeth Gray’s poems seek to discover where we are in the midst of a battle we can never fully see.

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César Aira Portrays Artforum as an Object of Desire

by Nolan Kelly September 5, 2020November 5, 2020

The novelist transforms the magazine into an ambiguous symbol of everything its reader might lack.

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A Writer’s Portrait of Louise Bourgeois

by John Yau June 6, 2020November 5, 2020

Now, Now Louison is a book that will trouble purists who believe in strict categories, such as biography, art criticism, and novel.

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Susan Howe’s Feminist Poetics

by Mark Scroggins May 9, 2020May 8, 2020

Throughout her work and in her latest volume, Concordance, Howe confronts the plight of the female writer in a masculine literary culture.

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The Artists Who Wrote Poetry at Black Mountain, From Josef Albers to John Cage

by Victoria Nebolsin November 8, 2019

Including poems from well known writers and less expected artists, Black Mountain Poems produces a keener vision of the interdisciplinary culture of the famed college.

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A Book Assumes the Voice of Louise Bourgeois in Uncomfortable Ways

by Bridget Quinn April 11, 2019June 18, 2020

Jean Frémon began his book Now, Now, Louison while the artist, who was also a friend, was still alive.

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César Aira’s Memoir Responds to an Existentialist Crisis

by Craig Hubert March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Whatever might be truth or fiction in Birthday is used in service of the book’s main question: What has been the purpose of the author’s life?

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A New Collection of Surrealist Writings Focuses on Women Authors

by Joseph Nechvatal November 19, 2018November 16, 2018

The Milk Bowl of Feathers shows how women’s contributions to the Surrealist literary canon captivatingly crack the wall of Surrealist phallocracy.

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A Dystopian Fairy Tale Reflects Challenges of the Present

by Matt Turner April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

Despite the serious environmental and political challenges presented in The Emissary, Yoko Tawada suggests that another path exists.

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Intertextual Depth in Susan Howe’s Debths

by Douglas Messerli August 13, 2017August 11, 2017

These poems collage Paul Thek’s art, 19th-century American literature, and a fairy tale to create a fresh understanding of the memory and soul.

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