Chika Sagawa’s life seems textbook tragic: a young woman with incredible talent in the male-dominated world of modernist literature, dead … More
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CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE, by Ross Gay
There may be effusion in Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, but there’s definitely no mawkishness, no syrupy sentimentalism. Ferociously earnest and … More
Wild Grass on the Riverbank, poetry by Hiromi Itō, reviewed by AK Afferez
(Be carried from your native land to foreign soil, where you will grow wild and propagate) Marking her return to … More
Paper, Cotton, Leather, by Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Consider this: happy endings, when they do happen, are usually found near the end of the story. We are left … More
Heavy Feather Review 