Picture by Demianastur / Adobe Inventory The surplus of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Residing (Milkweed, 2025), and on the foreground: motherhood, debt, forest fires, and a speaker who’s deep down like everybody “obsessive about dreaming / up the long run, with hell, with all / that spares us.” All through Moffett’s third […]

For all of its small miracles—large laughs and greater gasps, good performances by Joan Chen and Izaac Wang, sharp dialogue that evokes virtually too effectively the brash posturing of ’00s suburban adolescence—Sean Wang’s 2024 coming-of-age comedy-drama Dìdi left me with the sensation that I had seen this one earlier than. The strong-willed little one, the […]

For our collection Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve revealed in our pages. Nora Fulton’s poem “La Comédie-Française” seems within the new Spring concern of the Overview, no. 251.   How did this poem begin? Was it with a picture, an concept, a phrase, or one thing else? I […]

“[T]he College of North Texas administration just lately censored the content material of greater than 2 hundred tutorial programs, together with by mandating the removing of phrases equivalent to race, gender, class, and fairness from undergraduate and graduate course titles and descriptions. These actions had been allegedly taken in response to state laws banning sure […]