The suburbs are supposed to be safety incarnate. Originally, they were more closely associated with urban areas, though removed from…
CAVANAUGH, a new novel by Joshua Kornreich, reviewed by Pedro Ponce
Is it too soon to revisit the Brett Kavanaugh story? I wondered this as I became immersed in the world…
“Longed for as a Memory”: Anne Graue on Millicent Borges Accardi’s THROUGH A GRAINY LANDSCAPE
The opening poem, “A Man Sleeps, the Skies Move,” sets the tone of Millicent Borges Accardi’s poetry collection, Through a…
“Capturing the Is-ness of Liminal Events”: Avinash Rajendran’s Dual Review of RITES and THIN PLACES
“What are these dark days I see in this world so badly bent … How much longer can it last?…
THE PIT AND NO OTHER STORIES, short stories by Jordan A. Rothacker, reviewed by Jarrod Campbell
Small towns carry with them idyllic scenes of easy living, tight-knit communities, and happy families. Most of the inhabitants are…
David Leo Rice’s New Novel THE NEW HOUSE, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
My wife and I still talk often about the term “art monster”—first coined in Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel Dept. of…
“Hewing Hope from Despair”: Sonia Greenfield Reviews Michael Kleber-Diggs’ WORLDLY THINGS
There is a great deal to be learned from reading Michael Kleber-Diggs’ Worldly Things. Like how to write a poem…
Flavor Town USA Poetry: “Michelin Star Stool” by Adam Berlin
Michelin Star Stool Le Cirque’s maitre d’leads us past candelabrasdripping wax on polishedcornucopias, mostly Dionysian grapes. He pulls chairs, takes…
“Finding the Ghost in Hoarded Objects”: William Lessard Interviews Kate Durbin
Kate Durbin’s art and writing have been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Believer, BOMB,…
DELIVER THY PIGS, a debut novel by Joey Hedger, reviewed by Jesse Hilson
We’re often told by craftsmen that “a piece of fiction needs conflict.” Some novels have such a faint outline of…
Three Poems from the Future: Josh Fomon
Our human shores Absence makes of me a skeletal transmission. A future silence hummed into the ether. In a fog…
“Familiar,” a Haunted Passages short fiction by Betsy Sharp
Familiar Lara, taking the dark path behind. Lara, cold night air. Jacob in the kitchen, frying his ambition in kid-chatter.…
Avery Gregurich: Two Poems for Flavor Town USA
The Recipe Said When Picking Rhubarb, Red or Green Would Doafter Ted Kooser head to walt’s house north of the…
“Towards Love”: Cameron Finch Interviews Erin Stalcup, Author of KEEN
Erin Stalcup is a big-hearted human who writes novels with her blood. What I mean is that when Erin cares…
“A Person’s Life Is Political”: Notes on David Wojnarowicz’s Work by Peter Valente
I’d always felt an alienation from the “art” world as well as the alienation from the forward thrust of civilization.…
Heavy Feather Review 