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VOLUME 28, NUMBER 2, SUMMER 2023 (#110)

To purchase issue #110 using Paypal, click here.To become a member and get quarterly issues of Rain Taxi delivered to your door, click here. INTERVIEWS Judith Margolis and Philip Miller: Let Us Now Praise Emptiness  |  interviewed by Yael SamuelRebecca Goodman: Why Write About the Shoah Now?  |  interviewed by David MoscovichYxta Maya Murray: Art and […]

Independent Bookstore Day Passport 2021

how to participate | sponsors | literary prize packs Once again, Rain Taxi's Twin Cities Literary Calendar is teaming up with great independent bookstores in the Twin Cities to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day by creating the 2021 Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport! Jam-packed with bookstore coupons and illustrations by local artist Kevin Cannon, the Passport […]

Spring 2023

Check back as we add more features and reviews in the next months! Interviews Stop, Look, and Listen: An Interview with Rae ArmantroutPulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout talks about breaking “out of the evangelical cage” as well as the process of writing Finalists and topics from censorship to grandparenting. Interviewed by David Moscovich Archival Woman: An Interview with Sarah […]

RAJA SHEHADEH

Renowned Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh began his US tour for “We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I” (Other Press) with a Rain Taxi sponsored event in St. Paul, MN. The event was held at the East Side Freedom Library and co-sponsored by the Arab American culture organization Mizna, with book sales provided by Magers & Quinn Booksellers.

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1, SPRING 2023 (#109)

To purchase issue #109 using Paypal, click here. To become a member and get quarterly issues of Rain Taxi delivered to your door, click here. INTERVIEWS Christine Sneed: Please Be Advised  |  by Justin CourterZack Kopp: A Guide to Happiness, Aliens, False Spiritualism, Brain Drugs, and Punk  |  by Hillary Leftwich ESSAYS Grand Prix: A Memory […]

DAVID AMDUR

Even before the pandemic, our culture was beset with isolation and conflict. In reaction, I have chosen to use my art to reach out to my community by depicting people coming together through music, art, festivals and social justice actions. This painting represents the MayDay Parade, a community celebration which was organized annually for 45 years […]

Hollow

Matthew Cole LevineUnsolicited Press ($18) by Joseph Houlihan Hollow, the new horror novel by Matthew Cole Levine, lives in the tenuous space between the safety of the hearth and the darkest parts of the Wisconsin woods, where the wind screams like a howl. It tells the story of a small town, Grange, where all is […]

Telluria

Vladimir SorokinTranslated by Max LawtonNew York Review Books ($18.95) by Garin Cycholl They say that those who live by the nail will probably die by the nail—that is, unless the nail is made of tellurium, set by a member of a guild of highly skilled technicians, and driven into one’s skull in a ritual that […]