Andrea Lawlor Rescue Press ($18) by Jeremiah Moriarty Both fable-like bildungsroman and exhilarating ode to mid-’90s queer culture, Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is the story of Paul Polydoris, a gay man in his early twenties with the uncanny abilities of a shapeshifter: he can magically change his […]
What a Philosopher Is: Becoming Nietzsche Laurence Lampert University of Chicago Press ($55) Nietzsche’s Final Teaching Michael Allen Gillespie University of Chicago Press ($35) Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson Bloomsbury Academic ($29.95) by Scott F. Parker You might not know it from the recent and very public haranguing Steven Pinker […]
Interviewed by William Stobb Poet, memoirist, arts activist, and tarot enthusiast, Paula Cisewski’s been turning the Queen of Cups upright for the Twin Cities literary scene since the 1990s. The author of four poetry collections and several chapbooks including a lyric prose memoir, Cisewski has curated a number of reading series, mentors poets and writers […]
Jane Medved New Rivers Press ($17) by Gwen Ackerman In her debut poetry collection Deep Calls To Deep, Jane Medved immerses her readers in a world of contradiction as evoked by Jerusalem, the city she calls home. It’s a place where each stone has a story, if a person chooses to listen, and Medved does. […]
BK Fischer Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press ($16.95) by Kimberly Burwick Consider the following timeline: April, 1989: Madonna's “Like A Prayer” hits #1 on the charts. June, 2016: An official decree issued by Pope Francis raises the liturgical celebration of the memorial of St. Mary Magdalene “to the dignity of a feast, the same […]
Carmen Gillespie Stillhouse Press ($17) by Sean Pears At one point in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)—a brilliant and underappreciated slave insurrection narrative—the eponymous character tells his friend to read to their fellow fugitive slaves one of America’s founding documents. “‘Harry,’ said Dred, ‘when they come, tonight, read […]
Charles North Pressed Wafer ($15) by W. C. Bamberger As a poet, Charles North is known for the creation of a new form of poem, the "line-up." A long-time baseball fan, North creates teams of names or of quotations, labeling each with what he intuits would be their corresponding position on a team. For example, […]
Edited by Anna Tellgren Foreword by Daniel Birnbaum Text by Patrik Andersson, Annika Gunnarsson, Ylva Hillström, and Pontus Hultén Koenig Books ($30) by Richard Kostelanetz Of the many impresarios of contemporary visual art, Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) ranked for a while among the more prodigious. He moved from institution to institution, from country to country, always […]
Interviewed by Allan Vorda Cristina García was born in Havana in 1959, and although her family fled Cuba for New York City in 1961 (shortly after Fidel Castro came to power), her home country has made an indelible mark on her fiction. Prior to becoming an acclaimed writer, however, García received a B.S. in political […]