No One Is Talking About This Book Review There is a temptation, when talking about No One Is Talking About This, to call it a novel about social media and leave it at that. The book certainly invites that description. Its protagonist spends much of her life online. She scrolls endlessly, follows arguments she barely Read more…

Time Is a Mother Book Review: Grief, Memory, and the Strange Work of Living On Grief doesn’t arrive politely. It barges in, moves things around, and stays long after you’ve run out of energy to fight it. As a book, Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong lives inside that aftershock. It doesn’t try to Read more…

Night Sky with Exit Wounds — A Review Entering a World Built from Fracture and Light Some poetry books gently open a window. Night Sky with Exit Wounds opens a wound. Reading this Night Sky with Exit Wounds poem sequence, you immediately sense that you’re entering a space where language has been reassembled with trembling Read more…