Focus: Failure
Volume 46, Number 2
Summer 2025
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From the Editor
The Trouble with Experts by Jeffrey Di Leo
Focus: Failure
Dancing on My Own by Lucas Crawford
Falling Short: Ben Lerner and Future Objects by Christian Moraru
Cara Saves the World: Digressions on Failure by Cara Benson
A Throw of the Dice by Dominique Hecq
Failure as Invitation, as Evocation Daisy Hernández
Failing on the Margins by Sandra Ka Hon Chu
Star Trek, the Future, and Prison Abolition by Syrus Marcus Ware
On Some Uses of Architectural Failure by Vajdon Sohaili
Failure Gifts by Shannon Webb-Campbell
History
Fiction
D.W. White reviews Mice 1961 by Stacey Levine
Bryan Counter reviews Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims
Charles Franklin Quaas reviews Disappearing Debutantes by Meg Pokrass and Aimee Parkison
Gabrielle Stecher Woodward reviews Thieves by Valerie Werder
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Book of Grudges by Dan Libman
E-feature
Frank Beck reviews The Dark Oar by Paul Celan, and Thricelandium by Paul Celan
Vanessa Loh reviews Pink Moon by Tina Barr
Cori L. Gabbard reviews My Blazing World by Patricia Brody
Kathryn Weld reviews Nell by Ally Young, and A Map of Every Undoing by Alicia Elkort
Ashley Mabbitt reviews Rhythms by Helen Tzagoloff
Memoir
Richard Wirick reviews The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
Lauren Keeley reviews Dust by Summer Brenner
Jan Garden Castro reviews The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat & Me by Jennifer Clement
The Laureates
Criticism
Naomi Ayala reviews Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry ed. by Ruben Quesada
Theory
From Our Own
Scenes
Treyf Books: An Interview with Rob Kovitz
Poetics to Come
Sarah Arvio’s Poetics of the Daimon by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
