Interview
Raymond Federman
An Inner-view
Features
Letters to Poets
Anselm Berrigan and John Yau
Truong Tran and Wanda Coleman
Reviews
POETRY
An Earth of Time
Jean Grosjean
translated by Keith Waldrop
Grosjean, a Roman Catholic priest who wrote this book while incarcerated in a Nazi stalag during World War II, struggled with religion and his personal relationship to God.
America (A Poem)
John Kinsella
Australian poet Kinsella takes on America from an immigrant's point of view, wrestling with capitalism, identity, and opportunity.
Cole Porter
Selected Lyrics
Even educated fleas recognize Cole Porter as a ubiquitous presence in American culture. Now the Library of America has assembled a selection of his lyrics.
Post Bling Bling
Eileen Tabios
In her new collection, Tabios investigates marketing culture through found and shared language in tightly defined moments.
FICTION
Panda Diaries
Alex Kuo
A quixotic novel, Panda Diaries is a political self-examination of China that includes a mail-delivering panda bear and an alienated government official.
Zed
Elizabeth McClung
In this engagingly hellish first book, McClung paints a post-apocalyptic world in which the protagonist survives by trading everything from toasters to drugs to information.
Passion
Brane Mozetic
translated by Tamara Soban
Mozetic avoids writing about the kind of sanitized homosexuals like those on TV's Will and Grace, lending a disquieting air to this collection of sketches about passion.
Sex, Blood and Rock 'n' Roll
Kimberly Warner-Cohen
A normal (by East Village standards) young woman becomes increasingly haunted by dreams of murdering men in this disturbing novel.
NONFICTION
The Shape of Things To Come
Greil Marcus
This diffuse, frustrating, and occasionally brilliant book continues in the vein of cultural criticism that Greil Marcus has made his own over the last thirty years.
Essential Muir
A Selection of John Muir's Best Writing
A useful sampler from a much larger oeuvre, this selection picks the best of this naturalist's reveries on foliage and fauna.
Transgender Rights
edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter
These essays mix a sad and angry acknowledgment of the difficulties facing transgender people with an optimism born from experiencing real progress over the past decade.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
It's no secret that comics aren't just for kids anymore, but we present here two reviews of graphic novels that are for adults ONLY.
Lost Girls
Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Continuing to set the bar high for graphic novels, Moore and co-conspirator Gebbie set out to create a pornographic work that rewrites three treasured icons of children's literature.
Sticky
Dale Lazarov and Steve MacIsaac
In Bed with David and Jonathan
Tom Bouden
Two homo-erotic graphic novels will suck you in but good.
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