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Tag: Shannon Nakai

Shannon Nakai on Janice Obuchowski’s short story collection The Woods

The woods have often served as the storyteller’s theater of magical encounters and warnings. Breadcrumbs, lost trekkers, magic brooks, foreboding … More

Janice Obuchowski, Shannon Nakai, The Woods, University of Iowa Press

Ancestral Throat, a chapbook of poems by Danny Rivera, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

“Dis–”, a prefix of negation, but also of an absence or removal, serves as the backdrop of Danny Rivera’s debut … More

Ancestral Throat, Danny Rivera, Finishing Line Press, Shannon Nakai

THE OBSERVANT, Ravi Mangla’s second novel, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

In his second novel, The Observant, Ravi Mangla takes us into the trappings—both literally and figuratively—of a world fueled by … More

Ravi Mangla, Shannon Nakai, Spuyten Duyvil, The Observant

TWO MURALS, a poetry collection by Jesús Castillo, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

Gracing the cover of Jesús Castillo’s latest book Two Murals is a bi-sectioned black-and-white image: half a fingerprint merged with … More

Jesús Castillo, Shannon Nakai, The Song Cave, Two Murals

Gentefication, a debut collection of poetry by Antonio de Jesús López, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

In April 2021, a recently elected city councilman of East Palo Alto championed for local clinics to accommodate a vulnerable, … More

Antonio de Jesús López, Four Way Books, Gentefication, Shannon Nakai

LITTLE EYES, a new novel by Samanta Schweblin, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

In its eyecatching green-and-white cover and deceptively simple title, Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes offers a playful, incisive critique on what … More

Little Eyes, Riverhead Books, Samanta Schweblin, Shannon Nakai

Book Review by Shannon Nakai: “Life, Language, and the [Im]permanence of Being in Dora Malech’s Flourish“

In her fourth collection of poetry, Dora Malech unveils the miracles and complications of being in her incisive linguistic and … More

Carnegie Mellon University Press, Dora Malech, Flourish, Shannon Nakai

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