BlogFlock
Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo
Ten Speed Graphic ($24.99)
By Hank Kennedy
Censorship, Robert Heinlein once remarked, is “like demanding grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.” Nevertheless, there have long been those who want to ban…
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
Graywolf Press ($17)
by Zara Karschay
The narrator of Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s debut novel Attention-Seeking Behavior is emphatic in her account of how she once found a man dead in the snow: She was first on the scene, she tells us, but this event has left no…
Gary Lachman
Inner Traditions ($30)
by Luke Gilfedder
Few musicians in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame go from earning gold records to writing biographies of Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, and Madame Blavatsky. Yet Gary “Valentine” Lachman—the…
Alex Dimitrov
Alfred A. Knopf ($29)
by Walter Holland
Alex Dimitrov, a clear and artful descendent of Frank O’Hara, richly appropriates the heady musings of the 1980s and 1990s, when Nan Goldin photoshoots in despondent shadowy doorways and bathroom stalls documented a version of New York City that has all…
Saturday, June 27, 2026 • 10am to 6pm • $5 entry
Minnesota State Fairgrounds, The North End Event Center
Rain Taxi is pleased to participate this year's Minnesota Antiquarian Book Fair! We’ll have all our chapbooks, broadsides, and other ephemera for sale at special prices, plus an assortment of cool…
Rachel White
Liverpool University Press ($160)
by Patrick James Dunagan
As the Elizabethan era sought to explain and enhance a broad understanding of the natural orders of the world, magic and science remained interchangeably blended under the broad umbrella of the occult, incorporating…
Edited by Holly Mason Badra
University of Arkansas Press ($26.95)
By Alan Ali Saeed
While Sleeping in the Courtyard isn’t the first anthology to showcase the diversity and range of writing by Kurdish women, it is arguably the boldest. Varied in terms of both genre…
Lyn Hejinian
Wesleyan University Press ($18.95)
by Luke Harley
Lola the Interpreter, the final work by Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024), stands as a crowning achievement of her career as an experimental poet. A sequel of sorts to Saga/Circus (Omnidawn, 2008), it continues her exploration of hybrid forms uniting poetry and…
Robin Coste Lewis
Alfred A. Knopf ($27)
by John Ngoc Nguyen
Robin Coste Lewis’s lustrous Archive of Desire hinges on a word it does not contain: “excuse.” The National Book Award–winning author’s third lyric performance opens with a handkerchief, an homage…
Bill McKibben
W.W. Norton & Company ($29.99)
by John Abbotts
In the preface to our co-authored book The Menace of Atomic Energy (W.W. Norton & Company, 1977), Ralph Nader describes a 1974 discussion with Dr. Alvin Weinberg, former…