by CAOIMHE A. HARLOCK Christine Wunnicke, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura (New Directions, 2019), pp. 160 Christine Wunnicke’s The Fox and Dr. Shimamura (2019, New Directions) is a novel that blends science and the supernatural, East and West, past and future. It … Read more

by PHILLIP JONES Teresa’s father is keeping company with the santo he is carving, San Juan Nepomuceno, martyred for not sharing a queen’s confession, now the patron of secrets and silence. A gentle man who married late, Filemón has little patience … Read more

by JESSICA Q. STARK Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019), pp. 96 An infamous and oft-misquoted line from the philosopher Theodor Adorno reads, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” What is partially suggested here is that poetry, by … Read more