KINDERKRANKENHAUS, a play by Jesi Bender, reviewed by Andrew Farkas

Children’s literature, television, entertainment (in general) used to be weird. We could go all the way back to William Blake, … More

SEARCH HISTORY, a new novel by Eugene Lim, reviewed by Michael Wong

There’s a line in Eugene Lim’s Search History that is repeated several times throughout the novel. A character declares something … More

ANGEL HOUSE, a novel by David Leo Rice, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

ANGEL HOUSE is the kind of novel that will mean something different to everyone who reads it, and indeed, will likely … More

“Museum at the End of the World”: Stephen Scott Whitaker on Jennifer Nelson’s third poetry collection, HARM EDEN

Jennifer Nelson’s third book, Harm Eden, is a warning. Composed largely in short free verse containers, Harm Eden’s exigency is … More

“A Scream in the Ear from a Passing Car”: Dustin Cole on IN SINGING, HE COMPOSED A SONG, a new novella by Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart’s newly released experimental novella is set in late 1990s Prince George, British Columbia, during the chilly month of … More

PINK MOUNTAIN ON LOCUST ISLAND, a debut experimental novel by Jamie Marina Lau, reviewed by Shyanne Hamrick

In author and music producer Jamie Marina Lau’s debut experimental novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, fifteen-year-old protagonist Monk lives … More

COUNTERFACTUAL LOVE STORIES & OTHER EXPERIMENTS, a collection by Jackson Bliss, reviewed by Titus Chalk

In Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Jackson Bliss sets out to stun. Each of the 13 stories in this … More

PSYCHROS, a CLASH Books novel by Charlene Elsby, reviewed by Alex Carrigan

When a person commits suicide, is it merely the final event of the victim’s life, or is it actually the … More

“A Dream of Trees and Television and Ghosts,” a nonfiction excerpt from Sarah Kornfield’s THE TRUE: A TRILOGY OF GHOSTS

“A Trilogy of Ghosts” is a composite of three books called The True.  In 2019, world-renowned Romanian theater director Alexandru … More

MAISON CRISTINA, a novel by Eugene K. Garber, reviewed by Francis X. Fitzpatrick

Author Eugene K. Garber spins some very dark and grim fairy tales in his neo-Gothic novel Maison Cristina, but does … More

“Logan Berry and the Negative Beyond”: A Review of RUN-OFF SUGAR CRYSTAL LAKE by Charlene Elsby

If we’re going to talk about Logan Berry, the question we first need to answer is, how is Cioran’s fall … More

PLAYLIST FOR THE APOCALYPSE, a new book of poems by Rita Dove, reviewed by Carolyn Oliver

Playlist for the Apocalypse is Rita Dove’s first book of new poems since 2009’s virtuoso Sonata Mulattica (her Collected Poems: … More