"A self-described exile, Toth fled Hungary after a public smear campaign was launched against her, for the “crime” of suggesting the introduction of certain inclusive books into schools' curricula, and the removal of more regressive others." clereviewofbooks.com/krisztina-to...

for a winner is every loser outright butler flat tire singing the license plate frame insisting “it cost to be a boss apply pressure” from "As If And" by Zach Peckham clereviewofbooks.com/from-as-if-a...

"Filoni and Groys convincingly show that Kojève was more than just a reader of Hegel. In many ways, he was the father of postmodernism and our own radical contemporary...The end of history is the eternal present of a bureaucracy without humans." -Isabel Jacobs clereviewofbooks.com/isabel-jacob...

"In my experience, it’s unusual to write an ending to a poem (or any piece of writing) that’s the ending I ultimately wind up with." @clairedonato.bsky.social on poetry and psychoanalysis. clereviewofbooks.com/kind-windows...

Wow these are bangers ! 😲😲😲

"spongebob is 海绵宝宝 which is literally sponge baby u say that sounds vaguely sexual i say u look vaguely sexual i prefer that name the toucan w/ the tidy mind who handles distribution at the paris review" two poems from @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/two-poems-2/

“The model of art-making at play here is purgative, externalization intended as a means to forgetting.” In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Jon Repetti reviews Tatiana Tibuleac’s newly translated novel, “The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes” - clereviewofbooks.com/tatiana-tibu...

"Hamrah’s signature genre [is] withering blurb-length “capsule” reviews of inane Hollywood product...snapped down to size, as if the movies weren’t worth the extra words." Joshua Sperling on the "anti-criticism" of @hamrahrama.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/capsules-of-...

I wrote about Tatiana Tibuleac’s “The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes,” an absolutely astounding little novel that’s finally been translated into English after selling out in 17 other languages, for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/tatiana-tibu...

"The dragon was born of legendary spaniel and so looks away, toward stupid nada, with kissable spaniel eyes. Its body is long though, seven or eight spaniels." an excerpt from Kyle Booten's "Gyms" clereviewofbooks.com/from-gyms-ky...

One of our editors @xandergershberg.bsky.social wrote this stunning dispatch on life in Minnesota as the people resist fascism. Please read!

I wrote an account that captures some of Minneapolis life right now amid ICE's occupation, the atrocities they wreck onto our communities, and the resistance Minnesotans have waged against it. Thank you @clereviewbooks.bsky.social for publishing! clereviewofbooks.com/the-chorus-b...

For the first time ever, the starred review has gone thermal. Stellar insulation for subzero criticism. It is meticulously embroidered, unreasonably soft, and in very limited quantity. This could be you.

"I meet a neighbor on one watch, and he tells me of what he remembers as a Chinese curse, 'may you live in interesting times'...I finally feel the curse’s logic." A Minneapolis dispatch from Xander Gershberg. clereviewofbooks.com/the-chorus-b...

"What does it take to write political poetry? Rarely can one stomach the fact that to write political entails that you live political, as Cortez certainly did...the revolution will not be digestable." @carystough.bsky.social on "Firespitter" by Jayne Cortez clereviewofbooks.com/jayne-cortez...

"Every age gets the Frankenstein it deserves, and del Toro has refitted his for the snug confines of the trauma plot." @zzoehhu.bsky.social on Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" clereviewofbooks.com/trauma-flop-...

"The war Malihon writes of isn’t only contemporary, it spans indefatigable durations and historical eons; this land has been under the fire, below, and in fire for centuries." @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social on Anna Malihon's "Girl With a Bullet" clereviewofbooks.com/anna-malihon...

"The growing darkness is cool to the touch, and my eyes can finally relax now that shadow has replaced sun and screen." Leo Kim on color theory, our political moment, and things that slip in and out of view. clereviewofbooks.com/color-theory/

Hello it's me, writing about Mackenzie Kozak's book "no swaddle." The book is a collection of sonnets asking the question of whether or not to become a mother -- an underexamined topic imo

"The poems in the collection are often about a lack of something...but the collection’s most emotionally adhesive moments come when she allows herself (or her narrator) to imagine a future that could be." Niina Pollari on Mackenzie Kozak's "no swaddle" clereviewofbooks.com/mackenzie-ko...

Cleveland Review of Books, Jamie Tennant + Winnipeg Free Press, / @clereviewbooks.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/01/clev...

lovely review essay about CHANGEOVER in @clereviewbooks.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/giri-nathan-...

"I knew I had to find my own reasons to want to get work done. I’ve now been writing full-time for more than three decades, which seems madness, somehow." @cybersubrosa.bsky.social interviews @robmclennan.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/rob-mclennan...

"I’m here on behalf of your breast, okay? I’m an ambassador of the breast. Would you like to know what your breast has been writing about, obsessively, in Russian Lit? Your breast writes about a runaway nipple." from "Dismemberment" by Ray Levy clereviewofbooks.com/dismembermen...

Congrats to our fiction editor Caren Beilin!

"Elkin’s characters illuminate something of the systems that they were born within; systems shaped by America’s global reach, our competing needs for belonging and independence..." Annette LePique on "The Franchiser" by Stanley Elkin @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/stanley-elki...

"Kaplan deploys novelistic form as a way to represent and probe the various and also competing desires underlying the social upheaval and where and how it all fell apart." Jonathan Larson On Leslie Kaplan’s “Miss Nobody Knows” clereviewofbooks.com/leslie-kapla...

"This ground we walk on sopped dreams up so we could hear the leopard talk through the crush of roughnecks in the moon pool." excerpt from "The Disinherited" by Terrence Arjoon @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/terrence-arj...

"But of course, I should say about Pirkko Saisio: people call her a living legend." Jordan Barger interviews Mia Spangenberg, translator from the Finnish of Pirkko Saisio's "Helsinki Trilogy." @twolinespress.com clereviewofbooks.com/mia-spangenb...

"I have invented a form of thinking about literature — Hmmm & Bang — which may appear playful (because it is) but which (make no mistake) is a challenge to our dispositions, our ungainly knack for categories." -Emiliano Gomez, "HMMM & BANG" clereviewofbooks.com/hmmm-bang-an...

"do you overwhelm, in traffic, do you have a favorite, sibling, or season, or a star, no one, knows, what you are thinking, even when you tell them" 4 poems by Alex Tretbar clereviewofbooks.com/four-poems-a...

"Wong’s West Coast novel and Geoghegan’s East-Coast-turned-Midwest memoir are both preoccupied with the experience of being just on the outside of a movement, not quite at the center but not quite separate from its concerns." -Lillian Lippold clereviewofbooks.com/which-side-a...

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🗓️ Fiction candidate Willow Campbell will be reading at the Cleveland launch party of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social’s latest issue 🎙️📓 12/14 @ 6:30 @ Dunlap’s Corner Bar See you there 🧐

"The chickens are organizing a game. It appears to be a putt putt tournament, or something like it. A hybrid of poker and minigolf. At this point, I realize my plan has backfired." from "From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson" by Zack Darcee and Elise Houcek clereviewofbooks.com/from-from-th...

Jeff Alessandrelli's essay remembering Alice Notley at @clereviewbooks.bsky.social is really moving & so full of Alice's presence. In the background of Jeff's piece is another story: small press publishing changes our lives & our shared world. clereviewofbooks.com/alice-notley...

"Rage can be just as much a lifeforce as pleasure". Alyse Burnside On David Wojnarowicz’s “Memories that Smell Like Gasoline” clereviewofbooks.com/david-wojnar...

"Romano’s memoir is an early example of feminist life writing, comparable to the work of not just of Ernaux, but also the memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and the autobiography of Marguerite Duras." Eliza Browning on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas" clereviewofbooks.com/lalla-romano...

"In fact, once he knows he has Mare and Bern completely under his spell, he sends them on errands. For a serial killer, he is incredibly lazy about the necessities of everyday life, like money and food." from "Their Many Names" by Jess Richardson clereviewofbooks.com/their-many-n...

community mausoleum is putting out some of the best stuff rn--I loved this book.

"What [New Romantics] are calling for is not a simple resurgence of feeling, a giving of ourselves over to every passion we have, but rather a conversion of desire." John-Paul Heil on Joshua Wren, Sally Thomas, and "New Romanticism" clereviewofbooks.com/new-romantic...

CRB 3.2: Revolutionary poetics, the Paris Commune, containers as cultural memory, feminist unsexing of language, the ethics of digression, grief as technology, art in munitions bunkers. If you flip through it fast, the stars spin. Welcome to the zoetrope.

“One of the ironies of his posthumous reputation is that, to be read and accepted by canonical scholarship, James had to be embraced by scholars whose views ran directly counter to his own.” — Peter Huhne on two new critical perspectives on Henry James both from @NYRB_Imprints

I. was 9 when I fell from the window for language. from "Vision Sans Seraphim" by Jed Munson. clereviewofbooks.com/from-vision-...

"The poets grapple with what it means to create a purpose-built archive and the ways in which this impulse counters the traditional principle of the archive." Megan McKenzie on "Permanent Record" clereviewofbooks.com/read-backwar...

In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, a deeply original dive into Don DeLillo’s JFK assassination epic Libra in the form of “twelve bullets, four appendices, and six exhibits.” “DeLillo’s Libra is a book about the entanglement of reading, writing, and living,” Nicole Kaack explains.

"These plots I conceive easily They describe action As original as the sun’s constant production The bells that ring across the estuary Draw the hours in and together" Three Poems by Hannah Piette clereviewofbooks.com/three-poems-2/

"Randolph Healy deserves to get noticed. The Ireland-raised poet and math teacher—who will turn 70 next year—has been assembling thoughtful, counterintuitive poems, short and long, into small press volumes since the 1980s." Stephanie Burt on Randolph Healy clereviewofbooks.com/stephanie-bu...

"Canetti obsessively writing the same phrase, in slightly different permutations, decades apart; me, attempting again and again to capture my grandmother—where does that impulse come from, the need to record?" Emma Heath on Elias Canetti and death clereviewofbooks.com/elias-canett...

Temptation fragrant energy Floribunda in memory Floribunda remind me / Madame madame in memory of all America shrub flag line bangs wind from "Deadheading" by Jon Conley clereviewofbooks.com/from-deadhea...

"Sometimes when I think of Midwestern in terms of being proud that you’re from the Midwest, I think of breweries, and coffee shops, and things that are very branded in this way that then became described as Williamsburg." Chris Molnar interviews Natasha Stagg clereviewofbooks.com/garage-rock-...