SUBURBAN WARRIORS: The Origins of the New American Right
Lisa McGirr
Prototypical rather than typical, suburban Orange County, Calif., provides Harvard historian McGirr with an illuminating microcosm of the historical transformations that took conservative activism Continue reading »
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Lisa McGirr
The Hollywood narrative of Prohibition as a time of gangsters spraying bullets from machine guns is blown wide open in McGirr’s ambitious history of the 14-year period in early 20th-century America Continue reading »
Lee’s exhilarating seventh collection (after The Undressing) continues his journey into the sacred. With quicksilver agility, the poet moves between the role of son, father, Continue reading »
Olson’s wise third collection (after Stay) is equal parts melodic and percussive, playing upon ideas of origin and extinction with remarkable tenderness. “Having Reached the Continue reading »
The thrilling latest by Santos Perez (from unincorporated territory [guma’]) gathers previously uncollected poems in a powerhouse package of decolonial Indigenous insight. A Continue reading »
The expansive and arresting latest from Pulitzer winner Gander (Be With) comprises what he calls a “novel poem,” a book-length single poem that spans time, space, and narrative Continue reading »