• After a Year Sober

    Derrick Austin

    Winter 2024

    In the second to last room
    of the Margarita Azurdia retrospective—
    wallpaper with roses the size of cabbages—

    there were two altars, handmade cabinets
    painted in a thin layer of white,
    wood grain and the labor of painting

    still visible, and where there would be glass
    in the doors instead is lace
    that caught my breath when I peered inside:

    Derrick Austin is the author of Tenderness (BOA Editions 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and Trouble the Water (BOA Editions 2016).

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    On the 2020 Booker Prize

    Tara K. Menon

    The Booker Prize shortlist this year is unprecedented: four of the six novels are debuts, the majority are by women, and half are by Black authors. No straight white men. Nobody is English. (Douglas Stuart, the only British author on the list, was born and raised in Scotland.) By most measures, it is the most diverse shortlist in the history of the prize. Depending on who you are, it is either a welcome surprise or pandering to the scourge of political correctness.

    Notes on the Interregnum

    The Sewanee Review

    Our online feature for Spring 2021 is this issue’s special section: Notes on the Interregnum, which offers the perspectives of four writers on race, the pandemic, and elections; the aftermath of the Trump campaign; how QAnon has altered the contemporary political landscape; and the “new normal” of a pandemic election year from from Sidik Fofana, Lorrie Moore, Elliot Ackerman, and Monica Black.

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