Two reviews for Defending the American Way of Life
“The machinations of the role of sport throughout America’s Cold War battles is both familiar and unexplored territory, something that this fine edited collection makes clear. With this set of probing essays, the editors Toby C. Rider and Kevin B. Witherspoon...
Jose Padua interviewed at Rain Taxi
“A Short History of Monsters explodes like a cluster bomb of hilarious, acerbic, menacing, satirical, clear-eyed, and self-effacing poetry that uncomfortably lays bare Washington, DC poet Jose Padua’s experiences growing up as a Filipino in a white world and an...Inventing Authenticity reviewed in The Journal of Southern History
“Unfurls a series of fresh insights…. this book uses a niche text—the recipe headnote—to weigh in on a debate that is not going anywhere anytime soon: what is the South, and who is southern?” —Camille Bégin, The Journal of Southern History, August...
Booklist reviews A Short History of Monsters
“Padua is a very wry poet who, in his first book, presents stinging and riotous poems, as in the two-stanza ‘Barbie’: ‘I am Barbie / I live in your dollhouse / You change my clothes every day. / If I could get out / of here I would / kill you all.’ These are...