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Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2026 (#121)
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INTERVIEWS
Shangyang Fang: Words for Lost Music | Interviewed by Mathew Weitman
Jeremy M. Davies: The House Always Wins | Interviewed by Michael…
Analog Cave at Northern Spark 2013
EXTRAORDINARYa brief recap of ANALOG CAVE
I love the word “extraordinary.” We all know it means “beyond the ordinary,” but I like how it sneaks in the notion that simply having more of the ordinary could lead to something wondrous. This is what happened at the ANALOG CAVE project that…
An Evening with Dessa and Friends
Sold-out audience waits for Dessa
Charismatic Dessa reads from her new chapbook, A Pound of Steam.
Aby Wolf performs a song inspired by "Dear Sir or Madam."
Sims answers a question from the audience. He took the inspiration for his song from Dessa's poem "Mercy."
Benjamin Burwell and Jake Pavek…
Wake Now in the Fire
A Story of Censorship, Action, Love, and Hope
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…
Attention-Seeking Behavior
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…
Touched by the Presence
From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult
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…
Ecstasy
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…
MINNESOTA ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
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…
Elizabethan Occult Poetics
Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry
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…