The mind is a strange place. Recently I had a sex dream about movie director Peter Bogdanovich, and I don’t even have those kinds of feelings for Peter Bogdanovich, or at least I don’t think I do. Historian Robert Caro was also in the dream—the guy who’s writing the five-volume […]
BIPOC Mentorship Contest Winners!
We are very happy to announce the winners of the Brooklyn Review BIPOC Mentorship Contest! Fiction Winner – Suzette Lam Poetry Winner – Nicole Robitaille Wishing them a fruitful mentorship with Madeleine Thien and Mónica de la Torre!
An Interview | Taisia Kitaiskaia on Mystic, Moody, and Playful Things
Taisia Kitaiskaia is a Russian-American poet and writer whose work has developed an idiosyncratic mythopoetics that revels in language’s creaturely underbelly, as seen most recently in The Nightgown and Other Poems, a poetry collection published by Deep Vellum in 2020. Kitaiskaia generously answered my questions over the course of several […]
On Being Vulnerable | Karl Michael Iglesias
Karl Michael Iglesias is an actor, director, and writer originally from Milwaukee, WI. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble, he continues his exploration of verse and heightened language in the theater. His poetry can be found in Apogee, The Acentos Review, The […]