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The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words

"Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination." —Woogee Bae

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Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe

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Would it help you. Would you open: On Joanna Klink’s The Nightfields

James Ciano | Contributing Writer Joanna KlinkThe NightfieldsPenguin Books, 2020 Appearing midway through the first section of The Nightfields,...

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Lips that Kissed Lips

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"In English, speakers are actors and objects are acted upon. A persimmon is there to be eaten. For Powhatan speakers, it just as likely might not be there since...

February 14, 2022
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"In the field, looking and listening, I am never not a little bewildered."—an essay by Hai-Dang Phan

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