Kevin Goodan
The Fuel-Type of Poetry

—Interviewed by Kimberly Burwick

Adalet Ağaoğlu
Writing to Unite People

—Interviewed and translated by Figen Bingül

Mahmoud Darwish

Best known as the poet of Palestinian resistance, Mahmoud Darwish has a poetic range far wider than his politics. A book of collected essays explores this exiled poet’s work and life, while a new collection of Darwish’s poetry again shows his incredible resilience and attentiveness to the wonders of life. —Reviewed by Robert Milo Baldwin

Comica Erotica

Three coffee table books explore the erotic in comic book form.
—Reviewed by Paul Buhle

POETRY

Inseparable by Lewis Warsh
The Riot Act by Geoffrey Young
glad stone children by Edmund Berrigan

Despite their differences in age, lineage, and poetic temperament, these three poets, and especially these three new collections of their poetry, have much in common, and provide an exemplary overview of what’s happening at the cutting edge of avant-garde contemporary American poetry. —Reviewed by Mark Terrill

Modern Life
Matthea Harvey

Harvey’s surprising, intelligent, and mysterious poetry spurns the personal and turns often to the pun, to the non sequitur, and to mathematical double-meanings. —Reviewed by Wendy Vardaman

Dismal Rock
Davis McCombs

A sandstone formation in Edmonson County, Kentucky serves as the geographical and poetic locus of this impressive, regionally-inspired collection. —Reviewed by Kyle Churney

FICTION

The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose
and
The Dream of the Stone by Christina Askounas

Each originally published 15 years ago, these riveting stories of alternate and alien worlds are well worth their restoration to print. —Reviewed by Kelly Everding

Guantanamo
Dorothea Dieckmann

Guantanamo chronicles the transformation of Rashid, a German who, while vacationing in South Asia, is arrested and shipped to America’s most famous detention facility. — Reviewed by Spencer Dew

Johnny One-Eye
A Tale of the American Revolution
Jerome Charyn

This picaresque story follows the eponymous hero from his humble beginnings, born in a brothel in Manhattan, to his brush with greatness. — Reviewed by T. K. Dalton

NONFICTION

The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
Alexandra Fuller

Fuller turns her keen eye to greed and black gold with the heartbreaking story of a young man who grew up, lived, and suddenly died on the oil patch in western Wyoming. —Reviewed by Kevin Carollo

The Wounded Researcher
Research with Soul in Mind
Robert D. Romanyshyn

Anyone who reads more than a few pages of this book is by default someone interested in doing “re-search,” as Romanyshyn describes “the unfinished business in the soul of the work, the unsaid weight of history in the work that waits to be said.” —reviewed by Joel Weishaus

Wallace Stegner and the American West
Philip L. Fradkin

An award-winning California journalist takes on the large subject of the iconic Stegner, who grew up on the frontier in the early parts of the century and became one of the first teachers of creative writing in America. —Reviewed by Ryder W. Miller

Sacred Sea
A Journey to Lake Baikal
Peter Thomson

“Yikes!” is evidently an insufficient response to discovering that the deepest lake in the world, known also to be the purest, is undergoing alarming biochemical shifts in response to human activities. —Reviewed by Eliza Murphy

American Drama in the Age of Film
Zander Brietzke

Brietzke comprehensively and concretely parses out the idiomatic values of drama and film to show the former’s continued relevance in modern culture, while honoring the latter. —Reviewed by Justin Maxwell

PHOTOGRAPHY

Suburban World: The Norling Photos
Brad Zellar
and
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
Edited by Andrew Blauvelt

Two new art books find beauty in the bland and the mundane of American culture. —Reviewed by Deborah Karasov

GRAPHIC NOVELS

A People’s History of American Empire
Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle

This graphic novel of Howard Zinn’s seminal A People’s History of the United States updates the information found in the original and features the historian as a narrator and witness to the atrocities committed in the name of American power. —Reviewed by Christopher Luna