Tracy K. Smith’s “Ordinary Light”Since I heard her speak as part of the Houston Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series in February, 2016, I’ve had a deeply personal…Dec 12, 2020Dec 12, 2020
Chigozie Obiama’s “An Orchestra of Minorities”When you reach the last harrowing page of Chigozie Obiama’s epic An Orchestra of Minorities, you might feel a vacuous unease, a fear deep…Dec 5, 2020Dec 5, 2020
Bryan Washington’s “Lot”Right now, we could all use some honesty, some beauty. Enter Bryan Washington’s master-craft “Lot.”Jul 12, 2020Jul 12, 2020
Mark Haber’s “Reinhardt’s Garden”Mark Haber’s (2019) Reinhardt’s Garden is the perfect book for 2020. Not only escapist and absurd, the novel vacillates between polar…Jun 17, 2020Jun 17, 2020
