Category: Review
LATEST IN THIS CATEGORY
When Artificial Intelligence Talks but Can’t Touch: Marjorie Prime
As anxieties about AI and mental health mount, a new Broadway drama confronts grief digitally today.
Oedipus–Adapted for the Stage by Robert Icke
Icke’s Oedipus reimagines plague, politics, and identity, highlighting trauma, narrative humility, chronotopes, and ethical listening.
Pushback: Mary Fissell looks back at 2500 years of abortion history
A sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.
Playground by Richard Powers
A dazzling novel where ocean mysteries, human bonds, and uncertain AI futures intertwine with beauty and suspense.
Mandatory Evacuation Zone by Felice Aull
This collection traces memory, language, grief, and healing through sixty-three finely crafted poems that illuminate loss and resilience.
Shannon Vallor’s The AI Mirror: A Metaphor
Shannon Vallor uses the metaphor of a mirror to reveal how AI reflects and distorts our shared humanity.
Speak by Louisa Hall
A haunting, multi-voiced novel exploring artificial intelligence, empathy, and what it truly means to be human.
Stuck By Heidi J. Larson
Heidi J. Larson explores the cultural, moral, and social roots of vaccine hesitancy before the Covid pandemic.
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie’s ironic poem deconstructs stereotypes of Indigenous people, exposing cultural exploitation, identity loss, and survival within white American society.
The End of Days by Bernard MacLaverty
In war-torn Vienna, 1918, artist Egon Schiele faces love, loss, and mortality as the Spanish flu devastates his family.
The Great Influenza by John Barry
John Barry’s The Great Influenza vividly recounts the 1918 pandemic’s medical, social, and political upheavals with novelistic precision.
Case History by Dannie Abse
This poem confronts prejudice, hate, and moral conflict, depicting a doctor treating a bigoted patient with professional duty despite deep offense.





















