From the Magazine

In the essays in his new collection, Loitering, published this month by Tin House Books, Charles D’Ambrosio places the emphasis on language and sympathy to uncover the story behind the story.

In a pair of new books, Gabriel and A Poet’s Glossary, poet Edward Hirsch draws from two very different sources of inspiration—the inexhaustible passion of a critic and the unanswerable grief of a father—to bring us closer to understanding what it means to be human.