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We started 2024 with an archival recording of Denis Johnson...
How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville’s father’s life, a moment lost to history and now fully overshadowed...
What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it?...
Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and Afropessimist....
Today’s conversation with Kenzie Allen, about her debut poetry collection Cloud Missives, is unusually wide-ranging. We look at the influence...