Cleveland Review of Books, Vol. 3.2

The Cleveland Review of Books is a journal of reviews, essays, interviews, and experiments in critical writing. In a landscape where American writing and publishing has become concentrated on the coasts, CRB stakes a claim for literary modes and responses that challenge this arrangement, along with its conventions and assumptions. "There is always something else out there and our aim is to always be something else: not just a journal of criticism, but a journal of what criticism can be"

In this issue: R.K. Fegelman on César Vallejo’s revolutionary poetics and the poet’s confrontation with death; Jacqueline Feldman on the Paris Commune and the precarity of collective living; Leo Kim’s “speculative nonfiction” reconsidering the container (from ancient jars to digital archives) as a vessel for cultural memory.

The issue also includes poetry by Jane Huffman, Matt Broaddus, and Logan Fry; an excerpt from Ruthie Prillaman’s play The Suitor; Michael Bible’s darkly comic fever dream about baby races, tax fraud, and rock bottom; Jason de Stefano on Chicago’s Hull-House and its radical craft tradition; Ari Moline on Aurora Mattia’s feminist poetics and how they unsex language; Lucy Schiller on the ethics of digression (literally: why wandering matters, in life and in literature); and Tristan Whalen on Marcel Breuer’s Minnesota concrete monastery.

Plus: Marlo Longley on art inside decommissioned munitions bunkers, Claire Foster on grief as technology, and a conversation between Cleveland writers Ali Black and Stephanie Ginese on place and survival

Cleveland, Ohio, 25x18cm, Vol.3.2, 145 pages