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Commentary |July 7, 2026

on Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America by Kim Phillips-Fein

reviewed by Hamilton Cain

“As this timely, incisive book suggests, liberty exists for the elect few, the rest of us be damned — a notion as American as Mom and apple pie.”
Commentary |July 7, 2026

on Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond, translated from the Spanish & introduced by Forrest Gander

reviewed by Matt Reeck

“The poetry strips back the extra, the social, the trauma of living with people, to try to get to a physical, spiritual core that connects us across chronological time and to the physical world.”
Commentary |July 7, 2026

on New York Trilogy, poetry by Peter Balakian

reviewed by Matthew Cooperman

“His work takes on the larger picture of historical formation, human rights writ large, and its accretive echo across time, while also reveling in the very material culture that sustains it.”
Commentary |July 7, 2026

on Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, essays by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

reviewed by Dorian Stuber

“She urges all of us who live primarily in one language to recognize that our seeming linguistic purity or separateness is only an inability to see the differences that inhere between and within languages.”

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Poetry |October 22, 2018

“Fine”

a poem by Carl Phillips