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