Marjorie Maddox’s latest, exquisite poetry collection, Transplant, Transport,
Transubstantiation
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the hope, heartbreak, joys, and frustrations of life through the lens of a
shattering event in the
In an attempt to come alongside my daughter’s schoolwork, I have been reading
Robert Middlekauff’s The Glorious Cause, a survey of the American Revolution
published in the Oxford History of the
Hailey told me about Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body the day after it
released. She dragged Ashley and me to the closest Barnes and Noble so she could
pick
I was in a fugue state reading Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State. I was safely
inside the mood of the novel—inside the patterning of Kiesling’s sentences, the
swish-swish of mother-child
A Jew in Europe in the 1930s was a person without a home. A Jewish Pole, for
example, might have left for Germany in the 1920s to avoid Poland’s anti-Semitic
mood; but
