Category: New Books

The Lost Ryū by Emi Watan­abe Cohen

The Lost Ryū by Emi Watan­abe Cohen

Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryū in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and twenty years later, they’ve become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins,...

Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer

Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer

“Sean Singer’s radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman’s, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive… I love in...

Shoham's Bangle by Sarah Sassoon

Shoham’s Bangle by Sarah Sassoon

Illustrator: Noa Kelner Shoham’s bangle jingles and jangles, clinks and clacks Shoham wears a golden bangle on her wrist, just like her Nana Aziza. Their bangles jingle when they cook, and glitter in the...

The Lit­er­ary Mafia by Josh Lam­bert

The Lit­er­ary Mafia by Josh Lam­bert

Jews, Pub­lish­ing, and Post­war Amer­i­can Literature In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a “Jewish literary mafia” were everywhere. Although a conspiracy of Jews colluding to control publishing in the United States never actually...