What’s at stake in this novel is the simple happiness of our struggling writer protagonist. Love and work are what she seeks and there’s ...

Seshadri’s fifth book of poems is wildly idiosyncratic, funny, varied in style. I found his preoccupations similar to Rankine’s in some w...

This book—image, poem, essay— is part of a trilogy including Just Us and Citizen, is less about race and more about mental anguish. What ...

Sue Miller’s novel is told not shown in the great tradition of Henry James, or George Eliot; the telling is psychological, fine tuned and...

This book, one of a trilogy, an amalgam of poetry, essay, excerpt and found image transformed my way of seeing race in the US. I felt my...

Published February 21, 2020 | By thea His prose reminds me of Ishiguro’s in the best way; lyrical, precise, and correct. That correctness...

Below is a project I did with artist, Diana Frid and musician, Mark Gallay in 2004 when I’d only loved in Chicago for 1 year.

Published April 19, 2019 | By thea The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt Nine Stories by JD Salinger After The Quake by Haruki Murakami Her Body...

Published October 24, 2017 | By thea This summer I read some startling poetry—Paschen, Kaschike, and Sinclair, 2 amazing debuts by Clemmo...

Published December 12, 2016 | By thea Panel discussion of best books of the year. Dec. 16, 2016 at 7:30pm