Category: Books

You’re Allowed to Laugh

ax Delsohn’s debut short story collection is hilarious. You’re allowed to laugh. It is also masterfully written, deeply felt, and at times painfully sad. Crawl is a sweeping pointillistic landscape of Seattle in the 2010s and a rousing toast to trans m…

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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

nless your entire experience of literature came from an Intro to Creative Writing course taught by a football coach, you probably know by now that dream sequences in fiction are fine, totally normal, and not verboten. But just in case you don’t believe…

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Scrapbook of a Rio Neighborhood

razilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho has devoted much of his still-young career to a thoughtful exploration of the many ways that cities, and by extension urban societies, are shaped and abraded over the years by political and economic forces. This …

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The Brothers Keene

he disciples Peter and John were opposites. My favorite example of this is from John 21:4. After an unsuccessful night of fishing near the Sea of Galilee, Jesus appears on the shore. Peter jumps out of the boat to swim out and meet him. It’s said that …

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A God So Close, It Burns

ticky Time, the debut collection from Los Angeles–based poet Alex Moreno, playfully explores what it means to be a body—and a divine being—under late-stage capitalism. The book itself is an art object. Published by micropublisher Sunflower Station, han…

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