Adalbert Stifter’s collection of novellas is long on landscape descriptions and short on climactic events—but his appeal for his more famous contemporaries is strangely understandable.

Paul Mariani invites a host of other poets to his metaphorical table, and then invites us to take a seat and hear what they have to tell us.

Morgan Meis’s highly unusual collection of essays upends expectations in precisely the right ways. Review by J.C. Scharl

Alternative band Half•Alive’s sophomore effort delivers on cool sounds and poetic lyrics—but it lacks the sense of hope that buoyed their first album.