Articles

A new volume reintroduces English-language readers to the trailblazing Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala'ika.  

Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America.

Douglas Kearney's new projects—a book and a live record—continue his dynamic experiments in Black performance.

A new edition of N.H. Pritchard's The Matrix reintroduces one of the most conceptually rigorous texts of the Black radical tradition.

On the doomed glory of Henry Dumas.

Will Alexander’s The Combustion Cycle combines surrealism and the Black tradition in a visionary ecological text.

A woman from the country meets the big city in Diane Seuss's new collection of sonnets. 

Hope Mirrlees’s Paris, “modernism’s lost masterpiece,” is both an aesthetic landmark and a queer love letter in disguise.  

Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Doppelgangbanger reflects the psychic toll of being Black in America.