Playlist for the Apocalypse is Rita Dove’s first book of new poems since 2009’s virtuoso Sonata Mulattica (her Collected Poems:…
“To What End?”: Lorenzo Bartolucci on A ROOM IN DODGE CITY, VOL. 2: THE BLUT BRANSON ERA, a novel-in-vignettes by David Leo Rice
Why do you want to be a writer? It came up casually, over dinner, but I’ll never forget the way…
THE PASTOR, a novel by Hanne Ørstavik, reviewed by Titus Chalk
For Liv, the titular pastor in Hanne Ørstavik’s 2004 novel—translated from the Norwegian for the first time by Martin Aitken—language…
“Taking Liberties”: Four Views of Maggie Nelson’s ON FREEDOM, a review by Ben Lewellyn-Taylor
1. What It Is In her 2011 book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson argued that “true moral complexity is…
And the Winners Are… 2021 Friends in Letters Results
Hello Feathers! Ryan here. I’m very happy to announce that Brian Oliu and Tasha Coryell have announced their picks for…
“Inventory of Doubt”: A Reflection on Form and Complex Language in Landon Godfrey’s INVENTORY OF DOUBTS
Landon Godfrey is it treat to the poet who likes to read the comical and the complex. But for this…
THE THREE VEILS OF IBN ORAYBI, a novella by Vincent Czyz, reviewed by Jeffrey Kahrs
The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi is packed with literary juice: It’s mythical like magical realism, yet historical in that…
Haunted Passages Poem: “Tangerine Dream” by Michael Sikkema
pack of dogs forms aroundglitching cop, begins to glow children, covered in fruit …
CORRUPTED VESSELS, a swallow::tale press novella by Briar Ripley Page, reviewed by June Martin
Briar Ripley Page’s novella, Corrupted Vessels, from swallow::tale press, is unconcerned with the truth. Not in the unreliable narrator sense,…
“Catalog of Nameless Girls,” a short story by Madeline Vosch for Haunted Passages
I have been sleeping with a married man for the past few months. I know, I know. But hear me…
A Review of Aimee Parkison’s SISTER SÉANCE by Stephen Daly
Set in Massachusetts c. 1865, Aimee Parkison’s novel Sister Séance presents the haunted world of a family with many dark secrets, and…
DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES, an award-winning short-story collection by Beth Gilstrap, reviewed by Drew Belle Elsey
I was born 700 miles away from the Carolinas, on the other side of the Mississippi, away from mountain peaks,…
