Elisa Gabbert

Three recent books reveal the potential—and the limits—of apocalyptic thinking.

Colorado Humanities and the Center for the Book in celebrate thirty years of establishing the state’s literary legacy.

Our poetry columnist writes about Valerie Mejer Caso’s “Edinburgh Notebook” and other works of vicarious grief.

Reading!

Just like line breaks and spacing decisions, typographical marks can shape how a reader hears the language.

We baked. We binged. We bought all the things. An A-to-Z list of the distractions that sustained us in this roller coaster of a year.

Looking for tools to help process these unprecedented times? Check out these nonfiction books about the pandemic, structural racism, and more.

Two debut collections, Sumita Chakraborty’s “Arrow” and Chessy Normile’s “Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party,” both show that humor can be a valuable weapon in a serious poet’s arsenal.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Meditating on disasters, she predicted a pandemic  The Washington Post

Jerry Falwell Jr. got a $10.5 million severance from Liberty, payable in a golden calf.

The policy choice in the presidential election is clear.

How city planning went wrong.

Call it what it is.

A look at the known unknowns.

A review of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union, by Richard Kreitner.

It’s a strange film, and in the shadow of death it plays mostly as a monument to might-have-beens.

In “The Unreality of Memory,” the poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert considers our psychological relationship to calamity.

The author of ‘The Unreality of Memory’ on writing a book of essays about disasters, what she’s learned about pandemics, how poetry leaks into her prose, and more.

Literary news and notes from around the region.