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The New York Times has distinguished some magnificent poetry in their "Best Art Books of 2017" feature. For instance, Holland Cotter was wild about Chris Kraus's After Kathy Acker, and a...

BOMB celebrates the end of a tumultuous 2017 with looks back at art, literature, music, film and television, and theater and performance. Contributors to the Literature section include Chris Kraus, Daniel...

1. Gaston Bachelard’s Solitary, Vertical Flame Can I articulate a Poetics of Light without discussing light’s source? Let me turn to some texts that have helped me a bit in invigorating...

In her essay "A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire" poet Natalie Diaz writes about visual art's ability to counteract misconceptions imposed on native peoples written in...

Small Press Distribution shines the spotlight on East Bay Booksellers (formerly known as Diesel) at Literary Hub. The Oakland bookseller shares ten of its favorite SPD-distributed titles in a special feature...

Michael Robbins tells of notable poetry in 2017 for the Chicago Tribune, with good words for Natalie Shapero's Hard Child, Nikki Wallschlaeger's Crawlspace, great books from Commune Editions (agreed!), and...

The December 2017 issue of e-flux journal is out, and we'd highly suggest that your first reading-stop be Wayne Koestenbaum's "Lounge Act at Thek Lounge," which is a transcript of a...

At Literary Hub, Nick Ripatrazone watches Don Owen's 1962 directorial debut, Runner, a film commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada, about Toronto runner Bruce Kidd. In this film, Kidd is training...

The Times Literary Supplement provided a standard set of twenty questions to poet Vahni Capildeo, and she turned them out in some clever ways. Meant to reveal for writers and readers the "books...