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Category: Reviews & Criticism

Dr. No, a satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, reviewed by Adam Camiolo

Dr. No, the satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, is uncommonly funny, ridiculously smart, and has a serious score to … More

Adam Camiolo, Dr. No, Graywolf Press, Percival Everett

“An Angry Bull Loose in a Video Store”: Jesse Hilson Reviews Steve Gergley’s Novel Skyscraper

Anyone who has shown up for a new job at a large, intricate organization and tried to get their bearings … More

Jesse Hilson, Skyscraper, Steve Gergley, West Vine Press

“self-evident and completely incomprehensible”: Austin Miles on Evan Isoline’s Insensible Text DƐVDMVTH

Insensibility invokes an opening. What’s insensible is ungriddable, unseizable, or unknown, even in plain sight. The inhuman geographer Kathryn Yusoff, … More

11:11 Press, Austin Miles, DƐVDMVTH, Evan Isoline

“Art Is Life and Life Is Art”: Peter Valente on Tell Me I’m an Artist, a new novel by Chelsea Martin

Chelsea Martin’s novel, Tell Me I’m an Artist, is a coming-of-age story about a young artist, Joelle Berry (Joey), living … More

Chelsea Martin, Peter Valente, Soft Skull Press, Tell Me I'm an Artist

Brontosaurus Illustrated, a graphic novel by Leanne Grabel, reviewed by Cathy Smith

A violent kidnapping and rape at the age of nineteen created a Brontosaurus-sized trauma in Leanne Grabel’s life. In the … More

Brontosaurus Illustrated, Cathy Smith, Leanne Grabel, The Opiate Books

Book Review: Francois Bereaud on Faith, a novel by Itoro Bassey

Nigeria is a vast country with a rich literary heritage. Award winning authors including Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, … More

Faith, Francois Bereaud, Itoro Bassey, Malarkey Books

“Frenzy of material, frenzy of discharge!”: A Review of Zoe Darsee’s Bell Logic by Maxwell Rabb

Music is ornamented by the caesura; by the muted punctures that impel the audience to imagine deprivation. The song’s melody … More

Bell Logic, Maxwell Rabb, Spiral Editions, Zoe Darsee

“Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall”: Michael Quinn Reviews Come Thunder by Barbara Helfgott Hyett

Like flashes of lightning, the 62 poems in Barbara Helfgott Hyett’s Come Thunder illuminate pivotal moments in a long life … More

Barbara Helfgott Hyett, Come Thunder, Lily Poetry Review, Michael Quinn

“If I Had to Read It Again for the First Time, I Would”: Jacob Collins-Wilson Reviews Behind the Tree Backs by Iman Mohammed

Behind the Tree Backs by Iman Mohammed (translated by Jennifer Hayashida and including the full original Swedish version) is a … More

Behind the Tree Backs, Iman Mohammed, Jacob Collins-Wilson, Jennifer Hayashida, Ugly Duckling Presse

Review: Alexandra Grabbe on Rita Zoey Chin’s The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern

Rita Zoey Chin’s The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is an enchanting coming of age story that sends us on … More

Alexandra Grabbe, Melville House, Rita Zoey Chin, The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern

Dangerous Blues, kind of a ghost story by Stephen Policoff, reviewed by Laurie Loewenstein

In the months after my mother died, my father confided to me that he regularly talked to her. To her, … More

Dangerous Blues, Flexible Press, Laurie Loewenstein, Stephen Policoff

We Are Mermaids, poems by Stephanie Burt, reviewed by Robin Arble

There’s a moment in Stephanie Burt’s newest collection I’ve read so many times I memorized it by accident. In “Love … More

Graywolf Press, Robin Arble, Stephanie Burt, We Are Mermaids

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