Reviews

The Stories We Become: On William Cash’s ‘Restoration Heart’

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Cash’s memoir is the story of a man whose penchant for letters suggests a desire to hold on to the present. Sealing up the envelope means ending the letter: allowing our fantasies and stories to be finished, read, and judged.
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The Millions Interview

How We Endure: The Millions Interviews M.I. Devine

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Pop means saying something deep in a stupid way. To say something stupid in a deep way, of course, is to be an academic.
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Book Previews

Must-Read Poetry: November 2020

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Stop obsessively refreshing the New York Times’s elections page, breathe deeply, and maybe check out these new books of poetry by Alice Quinn, Margaret Atwood, Yi Lei, Karina Borowicz, Valzhyna Mort, and Paul Celan.
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Ghosts Who Walk Among Us: The Millions Interviews Claire Cronin

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It wasn’t ghosts and demons that most frightened me while writing; I was haunted by God.
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Reviews

A Liturgy of Language: On Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’

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The end will take us all by surprise, but that there will be an end is not surprising. DeLillo is the laureate of this unsettling truth.
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Must-Read Poetry: October 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look at new poetry from the likes of Etel Adnan, Choi Seungja, Kazim Ali, and Eavan Boland.
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Must-Read Poetry: September 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look at nine new books of poetry, including work by Sumita Chakraborty, Joy Priest, Ross Gay, and Dan Chiasson.
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Screening Room

Normal Was a Myth: On ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’

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In the early days of the pandemic, I thought the most relevant horror would be zombie films. But we're past the initial shock of the health crisis, and at the curious moment where the most appropriate horror might be one of disorientation.
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The Millions Interview

Searching for Home: The Millions Interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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My mother and father were my first environmental teachers, and watching them hold their heads up high while they experienced racism and still maintained their sense of wonder absolutely informs how I shaped this book.
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Rethinking Suburbia: The Millions Interviews Jason Diamond

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I think Cheever really did a fantastic job of summing up what is dark and odd and messed up about the suburbs, and I think the suburbs do a fantastic job of summing up what is wrong with America in many ways.
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Must-Read Poetry: August 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone looks at new poetry from Eduardo C. Corral, Shane McCrae, francine j. harris, Khadijah Queen, Benjamin Garcia, and Luke Hankins.
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Nobody’s Martyr: The Millions Interviews Shannon Reed

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I do try to love all of my students, and meet them where they are, then help them move a little bit further down the road.
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Must-Read Poetry: July 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look at new books of poetry from Cleopatra Mathis, Alice Oswald, Karen Solie, and Charlotte Pence.
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Must-Read Poetry: June 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look at four notable books of poetry publishing this month.
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Creating Wider, Deeper, Better Realities: The Millions Interviews Patrick Madden

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I came to the conclusion that what I loved more than anything, and what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, was to think. Period.
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To Be Free of Time: The Millions Interviews Samantha Harvey

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Without sleep there’s no shock absorbency for the body or mind; nothing is felt mildly or gently.
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Must-Read Poetry: May 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look a new poetry from John Freeman, Rosanna Warren, Juditha Dowd, and Kiki Petrosino—plus an anthology edited Leah Silvieus and Lee Herrick.
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Must-Read Poetry: April 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone previews new poetry from Leila Chatti, Joyelle McSweeney, Victoria Chang, Tess Taylor, Philip Metres, and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell.
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