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Greg Thomas
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by Ross Hair
Colour / Grammar, Greg Thomas’s collection of 49 new and redesigned postcard-poems, offers an ideal introduction to the work and sensibilities of this prolific Glasgow-based poet, artist, and critic. Thomas is the author of one of the most authoritative critical studies of British…
Bobuq Sayed
Harper ($30)
by Zara Karschay
Bobuq Sayed’s deeply compassionate debut No God But Us takes us ten years back, the tragedy of critical distance apparent on every page. Distance—of time, place, nationality, race, sexuality, and gender identity—is essential to Sayed’s protagonists. Mansur and Delbar meet by chance in…
2026 Books Reviewed
Collapse, translated by Tash Aw (FSG, $26)
Monique Escapes, translated by John Lambert (FSG, $25)
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The End of Eddy, translated by Michael Lucey, (Picador, 2017, $18)
Who Killed…
by Emily Webber
I first met Molly Gaudry in Florida during her book tour. As we walked along the Jupiter Inlet, a pelican dived into the water, scooped up an impossibly large fish, and held it in its elastic neck pouch. The fish wrestled for a…
Mary Lucia
University of Minnesota Press ($22.95)
by Frank Randall
A groundbreaking and widely acclaimed radio DJ in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Mary Lucia has played a pivotal role in the development and sustained popularity of indie rock in the Midwest and beyond. Aware of her talent for “connecting…
by Jeremy Wang-Iverson
This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the onset of the Spanish Civil War, which had a profound effect on the American writer Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980). The days…
Brian Gyamfi
University of Pittsburgh Press ($20)
by John Bradley
“I was made in Kumasi, Ghana,” states Brian Gyamfi in What God in the Kingdom of Bastards, his stunning debut book of poetry. This is no mere autobiographical detail, for the author’s African heritage is a source that continually enriches…
Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis
Penguin Press ($32)
by Robert Zaller
The original Congress Building of the United States was destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812. It was threatened by a Confederate army during the Civil War. And it was stormed and partially sacked on January…
Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press ($19.95)
by Wes Blake
As co-editor of the anthology Flash Fiction America (Norton, 2023) and author of two previous short (sometimes very short) story collections, Sherrie Flick has distinguished herself as one of the foremost voices in flash fiction. Flick’s latest collection, I Have Not…
Ahmad Shamlou
Translated by Niloufar Talebi
World Poetry ($24)
by Patrick James Dunagan
The poetry of Ahmad Shamlou (1925–2000) towers over 20th-century Iranian literature, but has been too little appreciated outside the Middle East. Fortunately, Niloufar Talebi’s translations in Elegies of the Earth offer the most comprehensive selection…