Deepfake Serenade by Chris Banks

In Deepfake Serenade, Chris Banks’s sixth poetry collection, irreverent charm, emotional distance and surprising hot takes leap off every page. He writes in the title poem, “Inside every one of us is a deepfake. A holy ghost,” suggesting people have a choice to feel either like sad imposters or, if they’re brave, like survivors staring down a world both utterly familiar and strange.

Answer to Blue by Russell Thornton

This collection’s response to D.H. Lawrence’s question―“Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?”―is both an answer and a challenge, an achievement of beauty that contains the seed of something more enduring and sacred.

Covid-19 Conspiracies: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order, and Other Viral Media by John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, Anna Muldoon, Donald Leech, and Ashley Marshall, with a foreword by Anna Merlan

As the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) spread around the world, so did theories, stories, and conspiracy beliefs about it. These theories infected communities from the halls of Congress to Facebook groups, spreading quickly in newspapers, on various social media and between friends.