Issue 56 | September-October 2018
Conversations: Sybil Baker and Laura Catherine Brown
Sybil Baker is the author of four works of fiction, most recently While You Were Gone. Her work of nonfiction, Immigration Essays is the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s required…
Becoming Visible: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone
Very little in Jenny Erpenbeck’s previous fiction—allegorical, timeless—prepares a reader for the immediacy and moral heft of Go, Went, Gone. It asks the same question Michael Ignatieff did in his…
What do I know of drowning? On Matt W. Miller’s The Wounded for the Water
Matt W. Miller’s latest collection, The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry, 2018) opens with a preface poem that reads like a lonely sea shanty, a solitary voice singing: “Now…
A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments
Civilisation is back. But it is no longer the preserve of “Renaissance man” or of “the West,” or even of literate societies. Civilisation is a way of talking about human…
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