Renee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence

By Megan N. Liberty

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Art Books

The white lined drawings glow against the full-bleed black pages, encased in a black hardcover with embroidered white lines that are physically raised off the surface. These cityscapes, celestial scenes, and cartographic “paragraph drawings” conjure a vision of a different world, reconsidering the form of a sentence.

An Epic Poem for Queens, NY: Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan

By J. C. Hallman

JUL-AUG 2021 | Books

In breadth and skill, insight and innovation, Dear Miss Metropolitan takes its place alongside Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 among the most profound works of literature to have emerged from crimes so horrific they became international sensations. Years in the making, emerging from a mind transformed by decades in a chrysalis, the book leaves one heaving a glorious sigh, feeling that it was well worth the wait, and harboring a secret hope that the next cocoon will crack more quickly.

Natashia Deón’s The Perishing & Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence

By Yvonne C. Garrett

NOV 2021 | Books

These two very different novels explore issues of race, gender, and the history of white supremacy in the U.S.

From an ongoing untitled poem for Lewis Warsh

By Anselm Berrigan

MARCH 2021 | Poetry

Anselm Berrigan is the poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail. He lives and grew up in the somewhat lower part of Manhattan.