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Tag: Graywolf Press

“All Was Lost”: Robert Crooke Reviews Men in My Situation, a novel by Per Petterson

A real-life tragedy haunts this beautiful, touchingly honest novel by celebrated Norwegian author Per Petterson. The event in question is … More

Graywolf Press, Men in My Situation, Per Petterson, Robert Crooke

“Taking Liberties”: Four Views of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom, a review by Ben Lewellyn-Taylor

1. What It Is In her 2011 book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson argued that “true moral complexity is … More

Ben Lewellyn-Taylor, Graywolf Press, Maggie Nelson

“Response as Strategy”: A Review of Claudia Rankine’s Just Us by Ben Lewellyn-Taylor

Around the time that Donald Trump became a serious presidential candidate, many Americans in the U.S. took an active interest … More

Ben Lewellyn-Taylor, Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, Just Us

“A Storytelling Masterclass”: Gillian Perry on Nana Nkweti’s WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS (Graywolf Press)

Nana Nkweti is unafraid. Unafraid to interlace myth and reality. Unafraid to embrace the polyphony of voices that tell her … More

Gillian Perry, Graywolf Press, Nana Nkweti, Walking on Cowrie Shells

Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino, a new collection of short stories by Julián Herbert, reviewed by Jesi Buell (Graywolf Press)

I first became aware of Mexican author Julián Herbert when Graywolf published Christina MacSweeney’s translation of his novel Tomb Songs … More

Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino, Christina MacSweeney, Graywolf Press, Jesi Buell, Julián Herbert

“Bringing the Heart of Things to Eye Level”: Louis Elliott on EYE LEVEL, a poetry collection by Jenny Xie (Graywolf Press)

Philosophical, simple, balanced. Such is Eye Level, Jenny Xie’s full-length debut, a collection that returns wisdom from a place seemingly … More

Eye Level, Graywolf Press, Jenny Xie, Louis A. Elliott

Catrachos, a Graywolf Press debut poetry collection by Roy G. Guzmán, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez

Not too long ago, I described to a friend that the poetry of B.H. Fairchild was “muscular,” a word that … More

Catrachos, Esteban Rodriguez, Graywolf Press, Roy G. Guzman

“If you can’t look away, you might as well laugh at this egg heist tragi-comedy”: Cassandra Luca on Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel Barn 8

Just as we continue to ask, “if a tree falls, and there’s no one around to hear it, does it … More

Barn 8, Cassandra Luca, Deb Olin Unferth, Graywolf Press

Heed the Hollow, a Graywolf Press debut poetry collection by Malcolm Tariq, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez

There is something about the body that makes it an endless source for the written word. Whether exploring the body’s … More

Esteban Rodriguez, Graywolf Press, Heed the Hollow, Malcolm Tariq

In the Dream House, a Graywolf Press memoir by Carmen Maria Machado, reviewed by Benjamin Kinney

One of my favorite horror tropes is the house that builds itself. Inhabitants stumble into rooms they know they’ve never … More

Benjamin Kinney, Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, In the Dream House

ALL THAT MAN IS, David Szalay’s fourth novel, reviewed by Ray Barker

British author David Szalay’s latest novel—a term which doesn’t capture Szalay’s unique approach to the genre—is a restless, schizophrenic thing. … More

All That Man Is, David Szalay, Graywolf Press, Ray Barker

Erin Flanagan Reviews Jamel Brinkley’s Debut Story Collection, A Lucky Man

Absent fathers abound in this debut collection of stories, leaving behind their complicated legacies of race and love. As Eric … More

A Lucky Man, Erin Flanagan, Graywolf Press, Jamel Brinkley

Review: Robert Young on Han Yujoo’s Novel The Impossible Fairy Tale

If there’s one word that can be used to describe Han Yujoo’s novel, The Impossible Fairy Tale, it would be unique. … More

Graywolf Press, Han Yujoo, Robert Young, The Impossible Fairy Tale

“Reality Depends on Perspective”: Claire Polders Reviews Deb Olin Unferth’s Wait Till You See Me Dance

With “Likable,” the opening story of Wait Till You See Me Dance, Unferth throws us into the pitfalls of social … More

Claire Polders, Deb Olin Unferth, Graywolf Press, Wait Till You See Me Dance

Review: Erin Flanagan on Sara Majka’s Story Collection Cities I’ve Never Lived In

From the very start of Cities I’ve Never Lived In, Majka plunks the reader into a world where opposites coexist: … More

Cities I've Never Lived In, Erin Flanagan, Graywolf Press, Sara Majka

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