“I write you about the dead. I write you to stay alive and, after all this time, I write you, … More
Category: Reviews & Criticism
“The Seedier Angels of Our Nature”: Derek Maine on Reading BODY HIGH by Jon Lindsey
Los Angeles is an almost incomprehensively vast place. The expanse opens up a world of nooks, crannies, and hiding places … More
KISSING A TREE SURGEON, Eleanor Levine’s short story collection, reviewed by Judy T. Oldfield
On page 133 of Eleanor Levine’s story collection, Kissing a Tree Surgeon, I sat up straight, thrown for a loop … More
Maria Judnick on SYDNEYSIDE REFLECTIONS, an Everytime Press travelogue by Mark Crimmins
For the last year in much of the world, many of us have spent most of our days at home. … More
“Heavy Feeling”: A Review of Gina Nutt’s NIGHT ROOMS by Ben Lewellyn-Taylor
“Sometimes the unseen is more terrifying than what’s in view,” writes Gina Nutt. In a horror film, the camera passes … More
“The Echo Lasts and Lasts”: Loss and Renewal in Donna Vorreyer’s TO EVERYTHING THERE IS, reviewed by Amy Strauss Friedman
To Everything There Is, the title of Donna Vorreyer’s new book of poetry, immediately brings to mind the bible verse … More
“The Literature of Doom-scrolling”: Gabriel Blackwell’s CORRECTION, a review by Gillian Perry
Reaching the end of this collection, or novel, or account, or whatever this book is to be categorized as, Blackwell … More
“The Parts We Play”: Jesi Buell Reviews THEATRIX, poetry plays by Terese Svoboda (Anhinga Press)
chance but a chainof electrons vibrating[almostendlessly] only error shitting life I watched Matthew Holness’ Possum right before I picked up … More
“In the Tearing Wind”: A Conversation with Edward Foster’s A LOOKING-GLASS FOR TRAYTORS by Peter Valente
Edward Foster, in his new book of poems A Looking-Glass for Traytors, explores the nature of desire and memory, risking … More
Esteban Rodríguez on THE TENANT OF FIRE, an award-winning University of Pittsburgh Press Press poetry collection by Ryan Black
The writer Jay McInerney once said that every generation needed a Manhattan novel, one that captured the culture and sentiment … More
Book Review by Shannon Nakai: “Life, Language, and the [Im]permanence of Being in Dora Malech’s FLOURISH”
In her fourth collection of poetry, Dora Malech unveils the miracles and complications of being in her incisive linguistic and … More
THE PART THAT BURNS, a Split/Lip Press memoir in fragments by Jeannine Ouellette, reviewed by Lisa Elaine Low
This beautifully written book feels as much like a novel as a memoir. In it Jeannine Ouellette narrates the arc … More
