Adam Morris reviews Padma Viswanathan’s new translation of São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos. “The novel is at once a merciless satire of social class in postcolonial Brazil, and a sensitivity reader’s worst nightmare.“

Four prose pieces by Dan Elkind.

However outlandish the utterance, however devious the digression, or pained the disclosure, an Olson poem conveys and keeps a somber promise, that words will not fail. 

Octave has been kidnapped! Will our optimistic hero be able to see the bright side of this situation?

Magic is in the air today…more than we can begin to imagine!

Helen Adam is a singular luminary whose ballads, if you read them out loud and late at night, will sneak into your mind and create phantasmagorias of exquisite, sensual, brooding, and melancholy fairy-tales.

German knows how to cure Jon’s boredom. If only Jon would listen!

Joe Safdie hits two bird with one stone reviewing Ammiel Alcalay’s A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs and his forthcoming Ghost Talk.

Herman Van den Reeck returns for 5 lightning reviews of books by Justin Phillip Reed, Lana Del Rey, Maria Dahvana Headley, Eliza Griswold, and Norman Finkelstein.

‘Song. Sang Freud. Spread on the chalcedony, a land there is no title to.’ And where is that? …

Every creation has resonance beyond itself. Our participation in nature is a creative act by which nature knows its further nature, as we know our own.

With Octave away, it’s up to Maurice to defeat a surreal foe. Will he rise to the occasion, or has he met his match?

There are two types of sailors in this world: the raucous kind who party well into the night…and Fauntleroy!

An astonishing medley of de-centered avant-garde and the late Neolithic, the poems of Bustriazo Ortiz breathe fresh air into the migratory Spanish language.

Jon and German go out dancing. They have a great time…but is it enough?

The artist Tom Leaver is a painter who dons rubber gloves, dips his fingertips into the palette, and spreads gestures across the canvas. To him, it is an act of meditation, the procession of time throughout a day distilled into an image.

To create something new, at best, is to give an intimation of the potential that is obstructed, and hence, by a contrast however faint, to draw attention to the obstruction and the pain it induces.

From within Varela’s rough text, Lara extracts unexpected threads of forms, unarticulated rhythms and figures of speech that keep the metaphors together and yet, by the same token, undermine and fulfill Varela’s austere treatment.

A trip to the bar might be a commonplace activity for most, but when Octave pays a visit anything is possible!

Fauntleroy has a spring in his step and a song in his heart…and with a job like his, that’s not an easy feat!