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David Blair lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. Hes the author of five books of books of poetry, including last years True Figures: Selected Shorter Poems and Prose Poems, and his forthcoming collaboration with arist Donald Langosy, Country Music Frankenstein, will be appearing in 2024, both of them from MadHat Press.

Back in 2000, Liz Deschenes curated a show at the Andrew Kreps Gallery called Photography about Photography, which included thirteen artists and outlined her approach to the medium. That approach might be described as: rigorous, unorthodox, engaged with the materiality of her work as well as with the architecture in which it is shown, and deeply invested in the medium and history of photography (though she rarely uses a camera).

Keep Left at the Fork opens with two hands maybe grasping for, maybe pulling away from one another. Jesus is watching from a wrist. As the title of the imposing work suggests, in this gaze are The Eyes of Texas (2022). The ambiguity of charged space between contact sets the tone for Chloe Chiasson’s solo museum debut at Dallas Contemporary; here, enormity and iconography suggest how home and history are constantly rejecting us and beckoning us back. Through a grouping of nine large-scale mi...

Alderman writes complex novels and her new one, The Future, is a hefty but highly compelling page-turner that pulled me in and kept me reading from the first line. It’s a very dark read but also shot through with humor, sharp satire, compassion, a great love story, and well-wrought prose.

James Kennedy’s depraved, hilarious, and genre-bending Midwestern horror coming-of-age novel Bride of the Tornado features voracious, sentient, animalic tornadoes wreaking havoc on a town less wholesome than first meets the eye.

There’s a strange no-man’s land between the intentionally surreal and murky reality of digitally created forms that through a combination of form, text and effect mimic surrealism without actually accessing surrealism’s conceptual motivations. Ross in his many capacities as an artist—sculptor, videographer, and performer—has frequently mined the web and dark web for all manner of memes, images, phrases, and tropes to construct a topsy-turvy world of hybrid monsters with ...

With her usual grace and skill, Sigrid Nunez presents a series of delicate, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, sometimes funny musings on life. There are those who will lazily call this a pandemic novel but it’s so much more than that. Instead, this is a window into the life of a writer, a woman who is both one of “the vulnerables” and a force to be reckoned with.

A bloodbath spins across a sprawling field on the engraved barrels of the .44 bore Walker, .31-caliber Pocket Revolver and .44 Dragoon model Colt revolvers. Rendered in their military finest by Waterman L. Ormsby (Samuel Colt’s frequent artistic collaborator) a squadron of Euro-American dragoons are mid-charge with smoking revolvers in hand, taking aim at their Comanche adversaries.

In the summer of 2023, I was standing on the southwest corner of 47th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan with two individuals—both of whom, as unaccompanied immigrant children (UICs), walked from the “Northern Triangle” in Central America at different times to cross the southern border into Texas.

Horrific and yet strangely beautiful. I’m interested in showing what the results are. This is what it looks like. This is what preparation for self-defense looks like. If you want to be good at this, this is what the data is. This is what my data is, to show you all that I’m good at this. It’s not just about a bull’s-eye; I’m giving you information about my emotional state and my composure.