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"Nors pushes back on society’s standard of excess, forcing readers to sit in isolation and work through limitations of knowledge.“

"What do I know that I don't know?": Power and Inference in Dorothy Nors's Range

"Against the Elegist: The Ethics of Witness in Caleb Nolen’s Afterlight"

“Finishing Afterlight feels less like an attention than like being held under.”

by Mikal Wix

July 24, 2026

"“The land rattles with resilience”: Survivorship, Strength, and Selfhood in Serena Chopra’s A Catalog of Future Mercies"

“Chopra lyrically explores the complex inheritance of generational trauma, survivorship, and strength.”

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June 23, 2026

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"Mind the Dress Code: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Price of Admission in Kyle Carrero Lopez’s Party Line"

"Throughout these poems, the idea of how people and countries wield power is not the subtext but is brought to the forefront of the writing.”

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“Intertextual Metafiction: Michael Nath’s Talbot & The Fall: A Comedy (With Support)"

“The creative obstinance this novel exemplifies serves as the best kind of resistance to conformity.”

by Nicole Gantz

June 18, 2026

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by Shirley Dees

August 18, 2026