Lost in narration Submerge yourself in other strange but true worlds BY GENEVIEVE RAJEWSKI

Poetic license
No need to dumb down for summer - plenty of new poetry has all the humor, vibrancy, sexiness, and suspense of a good beach read
BY RUTH TOBIAS

Tales from Black Mountain
A look at the experimental arts college that scaled the heights of educational possibility
BY WILLIAM CORBETT

Dazed and confused
The roll call of rebel youth sounds off from fiction shelves this summer
BY RICCO VILLANUEVA SIASOCO

Get shorty
Summer's the time for fast reads; new short-story collections are just the thing
BY NINA MACLAUGHLIN