The Best Poetry of 2021
This year of slow and careful re-emergence has felt, to me, like an odd one for books. There was so much abundance that it...
A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods
Subin, who studied at Harvard Divinity School, clearly delights in such curious details, and “Accidental Gods” is brimming with them — though in addition...
Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry: Poems’ Review
To recite at the inauguration of a U.S. president is to occupy what must be the biggest poetry platform on earth. When Amanda Gorman...
‘The Fortune Men,’ a Novel That Remembers a Man Wrongly Sentenced to Death
There was a moment in Gary Shteyngart’s novel “Lake Success” (2018), the so-so book he wrote before this year’s excellent one, that’s stuck with...
‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will
“Wait … you’re pulling my leg! Do you think you’re in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind?’” the passenger asks, adding: “What kind of...