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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…
Banu Mushtaq
Translated by Deepa Bhasthi
And Other Stories ($19.95)
by Damhuri Muhammad
Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp: Selected Stories draws from six collections of fiction published in India since the 1990s; the first book by the Kannada-language writer to be published in English translation, it netted Mushtaq and translator Deepa…
by Dianne Bilyak
Editor’s Note: In the following roundtable conversation, we go behind the scenes of the recently published chapbook I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee (Wesleyan University Press, $7.95), which was edited by Oliver Egger. Pocket sized…
25 years ago, we hosted poet Mark Nowak in our reading series for his stunning first book Revenants. Join us as we welcome Nowak to the…
Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava is a visual artist and accomplished writer. Her written work has been featured by Pollen, the Star Tribune, and the Minnesota Women’s Press. Her book It’s Never Going to Work was released in 2018 and…
Rain Taxi's Twin Cities Literary Calendar is once again publishing its pocket-sized Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport—offering readers a fun way to visit bookstores and win discounts and prizes. Our annual Bookstore Passport celebrates both Independent Bookstore Day (this year taking place on April 25, 2026) and our…