Bulseco, Donna, ed. Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine. New York: The Experiment, March 24, 2026. * * * She had just lost her husband. Across the room, the practitioner wrote…
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Review of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Alfred A. Knopf, 2025 | Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction There’s a joke nestled in the title of Omar El Akkad’s book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: the…
A Review of It Was Never Supposed to Be by Ben Kline
I read an advanced copy of Ben Kline’s It Was Never Supposed to Be mere days after the 2024 presidential election was called. Meanwhile, pundits and journalists were stumbling over themselves to analyze results they…
Feed the Machine: An Interview with Benjamin Kessler
Benjamin Kessler’s novella The Pinnacle is set in a near-future version of New York City that feels uncomfortably close to our present moment. In it, our unnamed narrator spends weeklong shifts in The Pinnacle, the…
A Review of Eschatology in Crayon Wax
“Let my worship / be this work / and the force / of each bit / strike / on masonry”. And so, begins Joshua Robbins’ latest collection of poetry, Eschatology in Crayon Wax. With such…