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Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry is Stunning
Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry is Stunning
Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry, out now from the Vermont-based Animal Heart Press, is that rare gem: a 115-page…
Jonathan Bishop
Apr 11, 2020
A Conversation with Poet Bola Opaleke
A Conversation with Poet Bola Opaleke
Bola Opaleke, a Nigerian-Canadian poet, is someone I’ve come to admire, and so I decided to ask if he’d be willing to have a conversation…
Jonathan Bishop
Sep 9, 2018
Ottessa Moshfegh and the Specter of Death
Ottessa Moshfegh and the Specter of Death
The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard notably referred to the September 11th terrorist attacks as the “absolute event,” implying, in…
Jonathan Bishop
Aug 23, 2018
Cronos II
Cronos II
This is a piece of short fiction.
Jonathan Bishop
May 1, 2018
Writing Outside of Capitalism
Writing Outside of Capitalism
Every now and then Alex would see or hear something that appeared to be for no one but soon enough turned out to be for someone and, after…
T. A. Alston
Mar 21, 2018
On Reading What You Once Blew Off: Part One
On Reading What You Once Blew Off: Part One
Here’s the least-shocking confession of the century: I didn’t always read what my former English teachers and professors assigned.
Jonathan Bishop
Mar 7, 2018
Kaveh Akbar’s “Calling a Wolf a Wolf” is a Masterwork
Kaveh Akbar’s “Calling a Wolf a Wolf” is a Masterwork
It’s hard to not be envious of Kaveh Akbar.
Jonathan Bishop
Oct 9, 2017
It’s All Relative: Thoughts on the Goodness and Badness of Books
It’s All Relative: Thoughts on the Goodness and Badness of Books
By Jon Bishop & T.A. Alston
T. A. Alston
Aug 15, 2017
Octavia Butler’s Bleak Parable
Octavia Butler’s Bleak Parable
When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival…
T. A. Alston
Jun 20, 2017
The Greatness of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The Greatness of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
I’d never heard of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi until Marlon James mentioned her on Facebook. And now that I’ve read her story “Let’s Tell…
Jonathan Bishop
Jun 7, 2017
War as Normal
War as Normal
A Passage from “Half of a Yellow Sun”
T. A. Alston
Apr 27, 2017
On “Stoner” and the Good Life
On “Stoner” and the Good Life
John Williams’s 1965 novel Stoner ends with the title character, a college professor, dying peacefully in his home after reflecting on his…
Jonathan Bishop
Apr 24, 2017
Graham Greene and the Necessity of Pessimism
Graham Greene and the Necessity of Pessimism
The best thing to read in the still-young 21st-century is not something optimistic but pessimistic — specifically, Graham Greene.
Jonathan Bishop
Dec 24, 2016
That Time We Went To A Zadie Smith Reading In Cambridge
That Time We Went To A Zadie Smith Reading In Cambridge
Cambridge, the home of Harvard University, not Cambridge, the home of Cambridge University, Zadie Smith’s alma mater.
T. A. Alston
Dec 8, 2016
A “Wave” Comes Calling
A “Wave” Comes Calling
How Sonali Deraniyagala’s heartbreaking and brilliant memoir landed on my bookshelf
T. A. Alston
Nov 22, 2016
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