The Volcanic Feminine in “A God at the Door” – Chicago Review of Books

The Volcanic Feminine in “A God at the Door” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Tishani Doshi’s fourth volume of poetry, following 2018’s Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, marks a transition in her exploration of growing and aging as a woman. Where her earlier work focused on the internal and the bodily, A God at the Door reinvents the ancient equation of femininity and the natural world … Read more

A Fantastical and Mesmerizing Narrative in Yelena Moskovich’s “A Door Behind a Door” – Chicago Review of Books

A Fantastical and Mesmerizing Narrative in Yelena Moskovich’s “A Door Behind a Door” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Yelena Moskovich’s third novel A Door Behind a Door is a phantasmagoria about immigration, death, and queer desire with a plot that defies easy description. It centers on a young immigrant in Milwaukee named Olga. When Olga was a baby back in the Soviet Union, a boy in her apartment building stabbed an old … Read more