november-2020

Book Review: Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A History of My Brief Body

Part-essay, part-prose poem, A History of My Brief Body remakes the form of the memoir, just as Billy-Ray Belcourt unmakes and remakes himself in these pages.

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Book Review: Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s As Long As Grass Grows

Dina Gilio-Whitaker paints broad strokes exploring an Indigenous-centered history of environmental (in)justice in North America, from the coordinated uprooting of First Nations people from their ancestral lands to modern environmental efforts like Standing Rock.

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Book Review: Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem

These poems contain a violence that refuses to be healed from, a violence of knives and scorpions and bullets whose sting is transformed to light and tenderness under Natalie Diaz’s deft hands.

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Book Review: Love After the End ed. Joshua Whitehead

Every single one of these stories offers hope as a form of resistance against everything terrible that was, is, and could be.

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