We are pleased to share the entire review feature from Issue 18.2 on joy, hope, and delight, including the following reviews: Sakinah Hofler on Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (Vintage, 1992 edition) Yalie Saweda Kamara on Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2020) Daniella Toosie-Watson on Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, …
We are pleased to share this review by Sakinah Hofler of Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (Vintage, 1992), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here): There’s a spectacular category of writers I like to call badasses. These writers …
In “Thirty-Five-Year-Old Man Shares Joint near Harbor of Gay Resort Town,” John Bonanni brings to vivid, queasy life the discomfort of loving a place you know well but don’t belong to—the discomfort of the ethical vacationer.
CR contributors O Thiam Chin, Frances An, Krista Eastman, Amy Sailer, and Nahal Suzanne Jamir share their experiences starting new writing projects, as well as the practical strategies and mental resets they use to propel themselves forward.
In Albert Abonado’s “Poem as Manananggal Always Looking for the Moon,” the mythical creature is reimagined as a poem that “arrives at night / its lower half hidden // on an empty school bus / or perhaps a sinkhole // the city ignored despite the petitions.”
