Critics may debate the exact period in history when women emerged as an influential force in publishing, but few will dispute the early twentieth-century impact of Susan Glaspell. Rather than accepting and glorifying established... Read More

Leodine, a young girl growing up in the posh suburb of Elisabethville in 1950s occupied Africa, is shocked when she learns of her African lineage. Unable to reconcile her white identity with the existence of a black ancestor, she... Read More

In "White Masks", Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury takes up the gauntlet laid down by José Saramago in the last great novel of the twentieth century, Blindness. As a character in Saramago’s novel notes, the world has not exactly gone... Read More

The words adventure and poetry are rarely used in the same sentence, but are certainly apropos in Dara Wier’s "Selected Poems". There are so many surprises in her work-the ideas, the imagery, the simple and imaginative use of language.... Read More

Heather McHugh’s reviews are swarmed by words like “clever,” “play,” and “language games.” She puns, she’s wry, and she foregrounds seriousness in the title of her latest collection. Still the wit, McHugh startles with a... Read More

Farid Mushtak and Rana Shahin share the best and the worst kind of love: the star-crossed variety riddled with secret meetings, love letters written in code, constant uncertainty, blissful afternoons spent hidden together in the dark of... Read More

Romance thievery familial upheaval murder and religious awakening keep the inhabitants of 1830s’ Rochester New York from falling into complacent daily life. Rachel Abner doesn’t intend to fall in love with Michael Dugan a lowly Irish... Read More

"In Search of Small Gods" is filled with what is most loved about Harrison’s work….nods to pure attentiveness. When he rises Harrison bows to the cardinal directions and to the vertical in order to place himself on the earth. These... Read More