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Sun Gets Enemy

They said: the men are enemies, the women are enemies, the children are enemies, the unborn are enemies, the cats are enemies, the fishing boats are enemies, the bakery and its bread are enemies, the hospitals and holy houses are enemies, the fuel is an enemy, the water is an enemy. They said: the men […]

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They said: the men are enemies, the women are enemies, the children are enemies, the unborn are enemies, the cats are enemies, the fishing boats are enemies, the bakery and its bread are enemies, the hospitals and holy houses are enemies, the fuel is an enemy, the water is an enemy. They said: the men

The book covers of "If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English" and "A Film in Which I Play Everyone", and the film poster of "Barbie" set against a yellow-pink background

On Perspective: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone, the Barbie movie, & Noor Naga’s If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Vanishing point: the point or points in a work of art at which imaginary sight lines appear to converge, suggesting depth Q: Who is the speaker?  A: The poet? Me? You? Us? The title of Mary Jo Bang’s new book (Graywolf, 2023) is a David Bowie quote, but I keep thinking of the Velvet Underground

On Perspective: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone, the Barbie movie, & Noor Naga’s If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English Read More »

Vanishing point: the point or points in a work of art at which imaginary sight lines appear to converge, suggesting depth Q: Who is the speaker?  A: The poet? Me? You? Us? The title of Mary Jo Bang’s new book (Graywolf, 2023) is a David Bowie quote, but I keep thinking of the Velvet Underground

Books covers of all the books mentioned in the essay set against a yellow-pink background

Ananda Lima on Books she is looking forward to in 2024

Happy New Year!  This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Tor 2024), my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. I have been saying

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Happy New Year!  This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Tor 2024), my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. I have been saying

A column of smoke resulting from Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

On Arab American Women’s Anti-War Poetry

I. Witnessing “This is weightThis is I did not know they made smoke like oceanThis is aluminum dusk and sulfur cloudsThis is sabah-al-kherMorning of luckMorning of cinderThis is steam and ruin and flashlit bodiesThis is counting your lossThis is losing count.” These are the first few lines of Hala Alyan’s poem “Diaspora” written in response

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I. Witnessing “This is weightThis is I did not know they made smoke like oceanThis is aluminum dusk and sulfur cloudsThis is sabah-al-kherMorning of luckMorning of cinderThis is steam and ruin and flashlit bodiesThis is counting your lossThis is losing count.” These are the first few lines of Hala Alyan’s poem “Diaspora” written in response

The cover of Boris Dralyuk's "My Hollywood and Other Poems" set over a blue-green background.

In with the Old: Boris Dralyuk’s My Hollywood and Other Poems

As in the Hollywood of the last century, Boris Dralyuk’s debut collection features bankrupt dive bars, washed-up starlets (“Nothing was ever / quite the same. // Every one came / to be another”), the odd fruit stall, balding palm trees, and Igor Stravinsky. Dralyuk is the former editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books,

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As in the Hollywood of the last century, Boris Dralyuk’s debut collection features bankrupt dive bars, washed-up starlets (“Nothing was ever / quite the same. // Every one came / to be another”), the odd fruit stall, balding palm trees, and Igor Stravinsky. Dralyuk is the former editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books,

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