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CRB 3.2: Revolutionary poetics, the Paris Commune, containers as cultural memory, feminist unsexing of language, the ethics of digression, grief as technology, art in munitions bunkers. If you flip through it fast, the stars spin. Welcome to the zoetrope.
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
CRB 3.2: Revolutionary poetics, the Paris Commune, containers as cultural memory, feminist unsexing of language, the ethics of digression, grief as technology, art in munitions bunkers. If you flip through it fast, the stars spin. Welcome to the zoetrope.
Give a sailor’s greeting to the contributors of CRB Vol. 3.2. This here list looks a little something like the mag's back cover. By subscribing, you'll get this issue in your mailbox, soon. Use the discount code THEBIRDS to get 30% off any level.
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Give a sailor’s greeting to the contributors of CRB Vol. 3.2. This here list looks a little something like the mag's back cover. By subscribing, you'll get this issue in your mailbox, soon. Use the discount code THEBIRDS to get 30% off any level.
3.2 is coming soon, and if you subscribe by Nov 7 you'll be among the first to receive it in the mail + one of the last to receive the (few) remaining copies of 3.1. Use the discount code THEBIRDS to get 30% off any level. I don't know. If you like print. Collect them all.
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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“What Bugs performs for us—and, in a different way, for Elmer Fudd, because the internal machination of their awareness is notably different—is Wagner’s opera.”
Christian Wessels on Looney Tunes and Middle High German, from Vol 2.2
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Christian Wessels on Looney Tunes and Middle High German, from Vol 2.2
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December 6, 2024 at 9:52 PM
“What Bugs performs for us—and, in a different way, for Elmer Fudd, because the internal machination of their awareness is notably different—is Wagner’s opera.”
Christian Wessels on Looney Tunes and Middle High German, from Vol 2.2
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Christian Wessels on Looney Tunes and Middle High German, from Vol 2.2
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Announcing: Our Cleveland launch for Volume 2.2. Friday December 13th at Mac's Backs Readings from @dannycaine.com , @danilamorte.bsky.social , Caryl Pagel, and more! Come through!
December 5, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Announcing: Our Cleveland launch for Volume 2.2. Friday December 13th at Mac's Backs Readings from @dannycaine.com , @danilamorte.bsky.social , Caryl Pagel, and more! Come through!
"But more and more Robinson’s public statements have tended to emphasize a broadminded civic rhetoric and a wishy-washy liberalism that seem a far cry from the radicalism evinced in early works."
Bailey Trela on Marilynne Robinson, from Vol 2.2.
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Bailey Trela on Marilynne Robinson, from Vol 2.2.
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November 29, 2024 at 5:41 PM
"But more and more Robinson’s public statements have tended to emphasize a broadminded civic rhetoric and a wishy-washy liberalism that seem a far cry from the radicalism evinced in early works."
Bailey Trela on Marilynne Robinson, from Vol 2.2.
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Bailey Trela on Marilynne Robinson, from Vol 2.2.
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would you look at that
November 21, 2024 at 5:08 PM
would you look at that
COVER REVEAL. Vol. 2.1 is coming to explode the swollen starred review. Essays, reviews, interviews, fictions, poems, etc. from everyone on the back, collectively working to repave the street and leave it glittering ominously with celestial shards. Pre-orders open soon.
May 24, 2024 at 10:28 PM
COVER REVEAL. Vol. 2.1 is coming to explode the swollen starred review. Essays, reviews, interviews, fictions, poems, etc. from everyone on the back, collectively working to repave the street and leave it glittering ominously with celestial shards. Pre-orders open soon.
Our next print issue will be here soon. CRB, Vol. 2.1 bursts with essays, reviews, fictions, poems, and more from all these stars. You may need to rotate your device. You may find yourself haunted by sinister celestial bodies.
May 16, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Our next print issue will be here soon. CRB, Vol. 2.1 bursts with essays, reviews, fictions, poems, and more from all these stars. You may need to rotate your device. You may find yourself haunted by sinister celestial bodies.
"The most hard-wearing and commonsensical of writerly truisms is the avoidance of cliché."
From Vol. 01: Jack Hanson in defense of cliché, on Brian Dillon
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From Vol. 01: Jack Hanson in defense of cliché, on Brian Dillon
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May 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM
"The most hard-wearing and commonsensical of writerly truisms is the avoidance of cliché."
From Vol. 01: Jack Hanson in defense of cliché, on Brian Dillon
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From Vol. 01: Jack Hanson in defense of cliché, on Brian Dillon
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"Cut-crease is a word for an eyeshadow technique I tried and failed today, but what it actually sounds like is what the two four-ton Richard Serra box cubes at MoMA are doing."
A.V. Marraccini, “A Cut-Crease for Richard Serra”
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A.V. Marraccini, “A Cut-Crease for Richard Serra”
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April 18, 2024 at 1:33 PM
"Cut-crease is a word for an eyeshadow technique I tried and failed today, but what it actually sounds like is what the two four-ton Richard Serra box cubes at MoMA are doing."
A.V. Marraccini, “A Cut-Crease for Richard Serra”
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A.V. Marraccini, “A Cut-Crease for Richard Serra”
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And strangers’ songs the mockingbirds still sing
But each night in my dream she eats my heart
Vol. 01 Poetry: Shane McCrae on hearing and listening.
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But each night in my dream she eats my heart
Vol. 01 Poetry: Shane McCrae on hearing and listening.
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April 11, 2024 at 6:34 PM
And strangers’ songs the mockingbirds still sing
But each night in my dream she eats my heart
Vol. 01 Poetry: Shane McCrae on hearing and listening.
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But each night in my dream she eats my heart
Vol. 01 Poetry: Shane McCrae on hearing and listening.
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"Women are inventing, because necessity is the mother of invention, new languages that require simultaneous acts of relation and imagining, active reading and critical looking."
From Vol. 01: Christine Hume on image-texts and feminist photopoetics
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From Vol. 01: Christine Hume on image-texts and feminist photopoetics
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April 4, 2024 at 4:21 PM
"Women are inventing, because necessity is the mother of invention, new languages that require simultaneous acts of relation and imagining, active reading and critical looking."
From Vol. 01: Christine Hume on image-texts and feminist photopoetics
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From Vol. 01: Christine Hume on image-texts and feminist photopoetics
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March 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM
If we know what we see we’ll know how to act. Or more like deep fake me once, shame on you, deep fake me twice who am I,
where, why.
Vol. 01 Poetry: Alyssa Perry on how nothing beats computers ok.
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where, why.
Vol. 01 Poetry: Alyssa Perry on how nothing beats computers ok.
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March 26, 2024 at 3:47 PM
If we know what we see we’ll know how to act. Or more like deep fake me once, shame on you, deep fake me twice who am I,
where, why.
Vol. 01 Poetry: Alyssa Perry on how nothing beats computers ok.
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where, why.
Vol. 01 Poetry: Alyssa Perry on how nothing beats computers ok.
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"I want to see Camp Dada as a fungal body, one in which we accept that the world will not be saved, and so strive for new ways of sustaining life in the present."
From Vol. 01: Jack Christian goes camping.
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From Vol. 01: Jack Christian goes camping.
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March 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM
"I want to see Camp Dada as a fungal body, one in which we accept that the world will not be saved, and so strive for new ways of sustaining life in the present."
From Vol. 01: Jack Christian goes camping.
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From Vol. 01: Jack Christian goes camping.
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remind me to tell you about the pedestrian
bridge arched over the tributary that flows into the cuyahoga river
Vol. 01 Poetry: Jason Harris on crossings.
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bridge arched over the tributary that flows into the cuyahoga river
Vol. 01 Poetry: Jason Harris on crossings.
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March 11, 2024 at 6:22 PM
remind me to tell you about the pedestrian
bridge arched over the tributary that flows into the cuyahoga river
Vol. 01 Poetry: Jason Harris on crossings.
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bridge arched over the tributary that flows into the cuyahoga river
Vol. 01 Poetry: Jason Harris on crossings.
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"The war that the WGA is fighting—against gig-ification and the abandonment of new workers in the field to low-wage contingency—looks a lot like the war higher ed already lost."
Hilary Plum, from Vol. 01
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Hilary Plum, from Vol. 01
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March 6, 2024 at 12:41 PM
"The war that the WGA is fighting—against gig-ification and the abandonment of new workers in the field to low-wage contingency—looks a lot like the war higher ed already lost."
Hilary Plum, from Vol. 01
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Hilary Plum, from Vol. 01
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From now until April 1 we're holding an open call for pitches of essays, reviews, interviews, and experiments in critical writing to appear in Vol. 2.2, our Fall 2024 print issue. Full guidelines, hopes, dreams at: clereviewofbooks.com/pitches-submissions
March 1, 2024 at 3:06 PM
From now until April 1 we're holding an open call for pitches of essays, reviews, interviews, and experiments in critical writing to appear in Vol. 2.2, our Fall 2024 print issue. Full guidelines, hopes, dreams at: clereviewofbooks.com/pitches-submissions
"The interpretive prism of calamity has shifted."
From Vol. 01: Dante LaRiccia on East Palestine, Ohio.
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From Vol. 01: Dante LaRiccia on East Palestine, Ohio.
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March 1, 2024 at 2:18 PM
"The interpretive prism of calamity has shifted."
From Vol. 01: Dante LaRiccia on East Palestine, Ohio.
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From Vol. 01: Dante LaRiccia on East Palestine, Ohio.
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"He called me a horny trainwreck from flyover country."
Vol. 01 Fiction: Meghan Louise Wagner on pancakes, vampire boyfriends, and looking for Ray Liotta.
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Vol. 01 Fiction: Meghan Louise Wagner on pancakes, vampire boyfriends, and looking for Ray Liotta.
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February 26, 2024 at 1:27 PM
"He called me a horny trainwreck from flyover country."
Vol. 01 Fiction: Meghan Louise Wagner on pancakes, vampire boyfriends, and looking for Ray Liotta.
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Vol. 01 Fiction: Meghan Louise Wagner on pancakes, vampire boyfriends, and looking for Ray Liotta.
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"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 lives in my consciousness like no other work of art."
From Vol. 01: Greg Gerke on horrors: fathers, sons, Midwestern winters.
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From Vol. 01: Greg Gerke on horrors: fathers, sons, Midwestern winters.
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February 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 lives in my consciousness like no other work of art."
From Vol. 01: Greg Gerke on horrors: fathers, sons, Midwestern winters.
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From Vol. 01: Greg Gerke on horrors: fathers, sons, Midwestern winters.
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"I couldn’t marry the Great Man and be the Great Man."
From Vol. 01: Sophia Stewart on Robert Caro, Ina Caro, and the plight of literary marriages.
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From Vol. 01: Sophia Stewart on Robert Caro, Ina Caro, and the plight of literary marriages.
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February 21, 2024 at 1:16 PM
"I couldn’t marry the Great Man and be the Great Man."
From Vol. 01: Sophia Stewart on Robert Caro, Ina Caro, and the plight of literary marriages.
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From Vol. 01: Sophia Stewart on Robert Caro, Ina Caro, and the plight of literary marriages.
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Fresh batch of Vol. 01s hot off the press. There’s never been a better time to get on that horse. clereviewofbooks.com/store/p/volume-01
February 2, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Fresh batch of Vol. 01s hot off the press. There’s never been a better time to get on that horse. clereviewofbooks.com/store/p/volume-01