New Orleans Sports Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
“New Orleans Sports is an excellent book overall. It is well written and well researched, and it provides easily digestible insights from several leading scholars of sport history.”
“The Chemistry of Fire is a whirlwind of observation, knowledge, and expression.”
The Chemistry of Fire: Essays by Laurence Gonzales, “treats the reader to an amazing alchemy of wordsmithing as Gonzales creates magic in prose,” writes Booklist in a spectacular new review.
Summer Farah reviews Strip by Jessica Abughattas at Anomaly
“As a Palestinian writer, sometimes I am afraid no one will care what I have to say outside of my marginalization — every poem must be about the occupation, must be about expulsion. I fear in reading Abughattas’s work, I’ve zeroed in on those moments, despite poems...
Kirkus Reviews says the essays in The Chemistry of Fire “explore what it means to be human.”
“Reflective essays explore what it means to be human. Whether he’s swimming in an underwater cave or touring a NASA center in Huntsville, Alabama, ‘a kind of hillbilly heaven,’ these savvy essays are a pleasure. An appealing collection about all the ‘rough and joyful...
A Theory of Birds Reviewed in The Adroit Journal
Maha Ahmed has reviewed A Theory of Birds: Poems by Zaina Alsous in The Adroit Journal. A Theory of Birds, Ahmed writes, is “a poetry collection that insists, in a world where the relentless Palestinian question of return exists alongside the marketed...