“‘Contrapposto’ is fundamentally a love story, and, as in the graceful asymmetry of its titular technique, there is loveliness in the union of two complementary opposites.”
In @altajournal.bsky.social, Anna E. Clark reviews Dave Eggers’s new novel, “Contrapposto” - www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Dave Eggers’s new novel, Contrapposto, reflects on painting, conceptual work, and the zeitgeist.
2026 Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction winners announced - womensprize.com/announcing-t...
English author Julian Barnes has won the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature - www.fpa.es/en/princess-...
“Vollmann’s documentarian sensibilities, foundational to his legitimate bid as our preeminent literary chronicler, are underscored by his tectonic imagination.”
In @thebaffler.com, Michael Barron reviews William T. Vollmann’s new novel, “A Table for Fortune” - thebaffler.com/latest/you-w...
“The novel is, despite the ups and downs of campus life, and of life itself, justly optimistic.”
In Harvard Review, Collin Mitchell reviews Brian Platzer’s new novel, “The Optimists” - www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
“Despite the melancholy nature of the novel, the exquisite prose conveys the depth of feeling and sense of place portrayed with such vivid detail.”
In Buzz Magazine, Rhianon Holley reviews Bassem Khandaqji’s newly translated novel, “A Mask The Colour Of The Sky” - www.buzzmag.co.uk/mask-colour-...
“This is a truly glorious novel rife with the grief and loss of climate disaster and a deep love for humanity and our planet.”
In The Brooklyn Rail, Yvonne C. Garrett reviews Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel, “Earth 7” - brooklynrail.org/2026/06/book...
“Behrman’s stories serve up hopeless situations, but the afterimage they leave is precisely the opposite.”
In The Masters Review, Dawn Goulet reviews Hillary Behrman’s debut short story collection, “Lake Effect” - mastersreview.com/book-review-...
“Her poems reflect the influence slightly more of nineteenth-century established masters than of the poets of her own generation.”
In @theartsfuse.bsky.social, Jim Kates reviews Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s newly translated poetry collection, “Song of Yellow Asters” - artsfuse.org/329851/poetr...
“Through the eyes of this fascinating antihero, Varfis-van Warmelo explores the lure of a fictional life over lived reality.”
In Rain Taxi, Zara Karschay reviews Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s debut novel, “Attention-Seeking Behavior” - raintaxi.com/attention-se...
A ready appeal of the so-called campus novel is the enduring fact that almost anyone reading the story at hand has attended school. It’s a world—unlike wartime Europe, wealthy beach enclaves, adult mo...
In these times of both climate disaster and our ability to embrace infinite hope, Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel holds particular resonance. From the sheer glory of the opening words: “In those years, t...
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Through the eyes of a fascinating antihero, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo explores the lure of a fictional life over lived reality. Reviewed by Zara Karschay
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s poetry carries historical weight, but Carlie Hoffman’s translations struggle to convey the formal poise of the originals.
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In “The Alvord,” the first of eighteen stories in Hillary Behrman’s debut collection, Lake Effect, Viv, a middle-aged waitress at The Fields Station, a “café-gas-garage-motel” in rural southeast Orego...
