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Dec 27, 20245 min read
A Review of Stephen Cramer’s Shakespeare Redacted
If you do not yet have any “blackout” books in your poetry collection, by all means make Shakespeare Redacted your first.
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Dec 16, 20246 min read
The Sad Truth: A Meditation on The Catcher in the Rye
Those of us who make it through are deeply changed. Our suffering notwithstanding, we’re better off having made the journey.
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Editor
Aug 8, 20245 min read
Review of “Parade of Past Lives” by K. A. Ramil
K. A. Ramil’s debut collection is a compact yet intricately woven mosaic of work and poetic masquerades that resists easy classification.
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Editor
Dec 27, 20238 min read
A Muslim Convert’s Fight Against Radical Islam
Conversion to Islam is not for sissies. No convert whom I have ever read about or met has made that decision lightly.
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Editor
Jul 24, 20233 min read
A Review of Holly Lyn Walrath’s “The Smallest of Bones”
With a keen poetic vision, Walrath delves into the enigmatic depths of curved ribs.
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Editor
May 12, 20235 min read
A Review of Wu Sheng’s Poetry Collection “My Village: Selected Poems 1972-2014”
Wu Sheng's poetry emanates the essence of rural culture in Taiwan, underscoring the significance of rural places and modest processes.
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Editor
Apr 26, 20233 min read
A Review of Man Fai Wong’s Photo Collection “Colors and the City”
"Colors and the City" is a stunning collection of photographs that showcases the unique character of Macau.
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hkreditor
Apr 2, 20235 min read
A Review of "I’m Always So Serious"
Karisma Price’s debut collection of poetry, I’m Always So Serious, out now from Sarabande Books, is a force.
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hkreditor
Dec 6, 20226 min read
A Review of Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense & Eye Level
The Rupture Tense, a National Book Award Finalist, is eerie and haunting, shot through with strange commands and otherworldly writing.
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hkreditor
Oct 22, 20229 min read
An Unyielding Relic: The Confucian Revival as Shown in Gu Mu’s Autobiography
As a technocrat and one of the main architects of China's economic miracle, Gu made Confucianism an essential part of China's politics.
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hkreditor
Jul 6, 20225 min read
A Review of Bruce Meyer's Toast Soldiers
Inside every writer, there is a child screaming to be heard as innocence slips through her/his blood-stained fingers.
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Editor
Nov 10, 20214 min read
A Review of Jhilam Chattaraj's Collection of Poems "Noise Cancellation"
In present times, where “the new normal” is changing drastically, the poems are a welcoming read.
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Editor
Nov 5, 20213 min read
A Review of Shin Yu Pai's Collection of Poems Virga
It is a comforting, meditative and spiritual book that offers some semblance of solace in these harrowing times.
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Editor
Oct 4, 20215 min read
Staring Outwards in All the Directions: A Review on Michelle Cahill’s Poetry Collection Vishvarupa
Cahill’s rendition of Vishvarupa not only looks out into the world, but ambits, and from that sojourn creates something unlimited...
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Editor
Sep 27, 20213 min read
A Review of Sanjeev Sethi’s Hesitancies
Sethi shows us the uses of poetry; He also moulds his craft to articulate the wise, rare yet universal verities of life.
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Editor
Sep 23, 202117 min read
Lonely Ghosts: Absence as Somethingness in the Works of Viet Thanh Nguyen
To see oneself only as a victim simplifies power and excuses the victim from the obligations of ethical behavior in politics, warfare...
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Editor
Aug 21, 20216 min read
Blurring the Line between Fiction and Reality: On Andrew Palmer’s The Bachelor
You’re willing to go with Palmer’s narrator on his existential quest, and entertain his lofty meta-critiques on contemporary culture.
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Editor
Jul 4, 20215 min read
The English Professor Who Linked Literature to World Politics
Brennan is convincing in his rendering of a self-critical intellectual who opened the world’s mind to the impact of language and art.
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Editor
Jun 6, 20215 min read
Prologue to Someone's Always Watching You
It must be said from the outset that Mac Aogáin’s writing is beyond classification.
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May 8, 20216 min read
Oh, Yes it Will
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America brings us to now, the intersectionality of the historical and present.
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