Fajront u SarajevuDr Nele KarajlićLaguna, 2015 Often when people hear the name “Yugoslavia,” they recognize it because of the war, or wars, of the 1990s. Another case of Communism, of ethnic and religious hate, of destruction. So much so that even I, a product and...
Flight and Metamorphosis: PoemsNelly SachsTranslated by Joshua Weiner with Linda B. ParshallFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022 Although I am usually wary of presentism, the too-easy application of historical situations to current contexts, I find that Joshua Weiner’s new...
My DeniversityMark PawlakMadHat Press, 2021 On the back cover of My Deniversity, Mark Pawlak’s memoir of his long apprenticeship in poetry to Denise Levertov, the novelist and critic Askold Melnyczuk compares the book to Pound’s ABC of Reading and Rilke’s Letters to a...
PresidentDirected by: Camilla NielssonRelease Date: 2021 How bad was life in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, the brutal kleptocrat who held power in that sorrowful nation for almost forty years? This bad: When the British mercenary Simon Mann tried to break out of...
No SignPeter BalakianUniversity of Chicago Press, 2022 In his ninth collection, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Peter Balakian grapples with the anxiety and loss endemic to our time. While the poems respond to recent events, they should not necessarily be viewed as...
Editor’s Note: It was just over forty years ago that the poet Christopher Logue published War Music, his “account” of The Iliad, and ten years ago that Alice Oswald published the book-length poem, Memorial, her engagement with the epic. In honor of these...
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest HourBy: James D. Hornfischer, Doug Murray, and Steven Sanders (graphic nonfiction)Published: 2021 (Dead Reckoning) CDR. Amos Hathaway of the Heerman has become...
Winthropos By: George KalogerisPublished: LSU Press (2021) On a small and hilly peninsula of Massachusetts looking out onto the Atlantic and in across Boston Harbor, Winthrop, as it has been known since 1852, is today a commuter suburb of just under 20,000 people, a...
Space ForceCreated by Steve Carell and Jeff DanielsRelease Date (Streaming): May, 2020 (Netflix) Space Force is an outer-space/military comedy that debuted in 2020 on Netflix (the second season was just released this February). It depicts the exploits of four-star Air...
The High Alive: An Epic Hoodoo DiptychBy: Carlos SirahPublished: The 3rd Thing (2020) The book arrives neatly wrapped in white tissue paper, tied up in twine with a bow. This theatrical presentation plays with pretense and anticipation. Unwrapping it, the book smells...
