Reviews

If you were to look up the word “hypochondria” in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), you would no longer find it as […]

As she climbed the 2026 Met Gala stairs in custom Schiaparelli, the social media magnate Kylie Jenner paid homage to the statue of Venus de Milo. The irony of attending […]

I have loved and taught the Western classical epic for many years. But I find myself increasingly attracted to the aspects of these texts that reveal the costs of the […]

“All that is personal soon rots,” remarked W. B. Yeats: “it must be packed in ice or salt.” Yeats meant that poets who wrote about their own lives had to […]

I have no reason to be in Maine. Nothing about the state, or what little I know of it (lobster tails and pointed firs), has ever struck that chord in […]

grief disguised as the rage you cannot name for it is the love you never knew —Mira Mattar   “I have a name but it is not mine” British-Palestinian poet […]

Diana Arterian’s Agrippina the Younger is a book fascinated with the telling of history, with the voids that both drive and emerge from this telling. Looking at the history of […]

In Blue Loop, AJ White debuts with a collection that navigates the luminous wreckage of addiction and its aftermath with a steadiness that never pretends clarity. Winner of the 2024 […]

From the moment that Jean Giono first came across the writings of Herman Melville in the early 1930s, he was consumed. Reflecting on that revelatory period a decade later, he […]