Go ahead,” it seems to scream, “judge a book by its cover.” Last year, I acquired my first book with sprayed edges: A Song to ...

1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...

Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ...