Ruth Madievsky

The Best Books of 2023

The Best Books of 2023

It won’t surprise PopMatters readers that many of our best books of 2023 are excavations of our increasingly clamorous culture. It wasn’t a year for escapism.

Acid Trips Meet Ancestral Trauma in ‘All-Night Pharmacy’

Acid Trips Meet Ancestral Trauma in ‘All-Night Pharmacy’

With the same shocking specificity that sets apart her poetry, Ruth Madievsky’s All-Night Pharmacy brings us uncomfortably close to everything the narrator witnesses in a hospital waiting room.