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by Eric Keenaghan

Critical appreciation of American poet Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) has waxed and waned for decades, but it is certainly having a moment now. The latest example of the renaissance underway is the recent…

 by Tiffany Troy

In their debut chapbook Freak of Nature (Choo Choo Press, $15), Ry Cook demands: “Look me in the eyes when / I’m talking to you.”…

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…

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,…

2026 Books Reviewed
Collapse, translated by Tash Aw (FSG, $26)
Monique Escapes, translated by John Lambert (FSG, $25)

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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…

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…

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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…

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…