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The Art Of Series

Dec 30, 2023 | bookshop.org | Graywolf Press
Is There a Right Way to Talk About Black Culture?

Aug 1, 2023 | newspub.live | Roger Reeves |Graywolf Press

DARK DAYS: Fugitive Essays, by Roger ReevesConsider the Black Square. In the summer of 2020, not long after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis and a few months into pandemic lockdown, people who felt galvanized to act took to Instagram or Facebook, replacing their profile pictures with a plain black box to signal their support for Black victims of racism. The Square epitomized that moment’s sometimes-futile rhetoric around race and Blackness.
Book Review: ‘Dark Days: Fugitive Essays,’ by Roger Reeves

Aug 1, 2023 | nytimes.com | Ismail Muhammad |Roger Reeves |Graywolf Press

Book Review|Is There a Right Way to Talk About Black Culture? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/dark-days-roger-reeves.htmlNonfictionIn the essay collection “Dark Days,” Roger Reeves tries to sidestep mainstream arguments to engage deeply with the way people actually live and think.
The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

Aug 1, 2023 | nyjournalofbooks.com | Graywolf Press

“The Kingdom of Surfaces is mesmerizing, gorgeous for its attention to language and image, and equally horrifying for what it holds before our gaze and how it challenges that gaze.”In Sally Wen Mao's third book, The Kingdom of Surfaces, the poet engages with identity and self-worth, memory (cultural and personal), decay (environmental, cultural, personal), sexual relationships, objectification, and othering.
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Jun 7, 2023 | mooresvilletribune.com | Graywolf Press

FICTION: Dorothy Tse's novel is a beautifully strange critique of contemporary Hong Kong. "Owlish" by Dorothy Tse; Graywolf Press (224 pages, $16) ——— As many of us learned in childhood, fables are simply short tales meant to teach moral lessons, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. Dorothy Tse's entrancing and otherworldly debut novel "Owlish" is a subversive, contemporary ...
A Novel Depicts One Disordered Night in the Life of a Teenager

May 2, 2023 | nytimes.com | Hermione Hoby |Max Porter |Graywolf Press

SHY, by Max PorterShuffling out into a damp, black English night toward a muddy pond in the year 1995, a kid bears the weight of the world on his shoulders. That, plus a real rucksack stuffed with flint rocks. This is Shy, a drum-and-bass-obsessed boy with behavioral problems, and a protagonist in whom myth and bathos slyly collide.
A Poetic Dissection of America’s Racial, Racist Derangement

Mar 7, 2023 | nytimes.com | Joyelle McSweeney |Monica Youn |Graywolf Press

Book Review|A Poetic Dissection of America’s Racial, Racist Derangementhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/books/review/monica-youn-from-from-poems.htmlPoetryIn her fourth book of verse, “From From,” Monica Youn turns a knowing eye on society’s love-hate relationship with what it sees as the “other.”Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
A Novel" by Percival Everett.

Feb 22, 2023 | rapidcityjournal.com | Graywolf Press

By Graywolf Press/TNS/TNS These titles are great to read this month - and any month. Every month. Late last month, writer Jason Reynolds won the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, a lifetime achievement award that honors an author and their body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." Add this to the many, many honors Reynolds has already won - ...