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Major Arcana

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John Pistelli
Belt Publishing ($24.95)

by Andy Hartzell

It starts with a bang: A gunshot to the head, on a university campus, in Middle America, live-streamed. This action sets up Major Arcana as a story about “today,” the kind that would come with the tagline “ripped from the tabloids” if…

Red Dog Farm

Rain Taxi
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Nathaniel Ian Miller
Little, Brown and Company ($28)

by Sara Maurer

Perhaps no author looms larger in Icelandic literature than Halldór Laxness, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. In writing a book set on a far-flung Icelandic farm—as is Laxness’s 1934 novel Independent People, widely considered…

Letters to Gisèle

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1951–1970

Paul Celan
Translated by Jason Kavett
NYRB Poets ($28)

by Patrick James Dunagan

The work of poet Paul Celan (1920-1970) was inherently a site of conflict between his Jewish identity, his East European heritage, and his ill-fated predicament of composing poems in the German tongue post-Holocaust, which saw his…

Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 2025 (#117)

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INTERVIEWS

Rachel Robbins: There’s No There There  |  interviewed by April Gibson
Kevin Prufer:  The Mystery of Metaphor  |  interviewed by Justin Courter

Wave of Blood

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Ariana Reines
Divided Publishing ($16)

by Robert Eric Shoemaker

Ariana Reines’s intention for her journal-like book, Wave of Blood, was to document the period between the Libra and Aries eclipses of October 2023 and April 2024, a time during which she toured Europe for her loudly acclaimed previous title,

Strangers in the Land

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Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

Michael Luo
Doubleday ($35)

by Sarah Moorhouse

In October 2016, an “Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China” appeared on the front page of The New York Times. Its author was…

Crumb

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A Cartoonist's Life

Dan Nadel
Scribner ($35)

by Paul Buhle

Editor’s Note: Read Paul Buhle’s review of Existential Comics: Selected Stories 1979-2004 by R. Crumb, selected and with an introduction by Dan Nadel, in the Summer 2025 print issue of Rain Taxi.


So much time has passed since the brief…

2025 Rain Taxi Readings and Events

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Independent Bookstore Passport 2025

April 23 through April 27, 2025

Hundreds of people took part in celebrating and supporting our local independent bookstores by picking up a free Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport and filling them up with stamps! See more info here.


Damion Searls

Sunday, June 8, 2025

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