Poet Ocean Vuong finds an original voice for grief in Time Is a Mother
…to stay.” The exhilarating long poem “Not Even” swirls together all of Vuong’s signature subjects, conveying the surreal spiral of making art from a life that straddles multiple identities —…
A global fleet of stories about the deep
…which includes sitting on the Curatorial Council of Carnegie Hall’s much-anticipated Afrofuturism festival in New York, starting next month. She is the author of several of books of fiction, most…
In The Sentence, a customer’s ghost haunts a bookstore over the course of one harrowing year
…All Souls’ Eve 2019 and All Souls’ Eve 2020. With the pandemic, the looming presidential election, and the tragic conflagration that engulfed Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd, that…
For Tennessee writers, our environment’s fate hinges on unearthing the truth about where we stand
…and supports veterans by engaging them in reforestation efforts on local lands. In the final third of the novel, White deftly aligns environmental disaster with the insidious spread of emboldened…
Richard Powers’ Bewilderment is a meditation on grief and the possibilities of radical empathy
…future of this tight-knit father-son household. Alyssa’s memory hovers over everything between Theo and Robin. A dynamic, ferociously committed animal rights activist, Alyssa pursued her work nonstop (even including persistent…
Ron Rash’s In the Valley displays his masterful command of short fiction
…Rash also includes lyrical interstitial passages that list the progression of wildlife loss that logging will bring to this valley — environmental destruction that parallels the human suffering that Serena…
