“The One That Scares You Most”: Robert Crooke Reviews You Have Reached Your Destination by Louise Marburg

As implied in its title, Louise Marburg’s latest, award-winning collection features lives in transition. Each tale is a journey centered … More

Birth of Eros, a novel by Debra Di Blasi, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

Size matters. I have yet to forget the first time I read those words, (and yes, in the exact context … More

A World Beyond Cardboard, a fiction chapbook by Jonathan Cardew, reviewed by Claire Polders

Jonathan Cardew’s collection of twelve tales is both an honest and an ironic dive into our humanity. In the marvelous … More

“Endless Hallways”: Laura Paul Reviews George Wylesol’s 2120

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Called a printed “point and click escape game,” George Wylesol’s new comic, … More

“The Alienation of the Long Distance Stalker”: Laura Paul Reviews Ali Raz’s Alien

Ali Raz’s newest book, Alien, is a novella about a hunter on the lookout for extraterrestrials in a city facing … More

With Different Eyes, an illustrated prose collaboration by Paul Smart & Richard Kroehling

With Different Eyes is a heart-stabbing book collaboration by the writer Paul Smart and the artist Richard Kroehling. The subtitle … More

The Last Dinosaurs of Portland, a prose chapbook by James R. Gapinski, reviewed by Shyanne Hamrick

The Last Dinosaurs of Portland may immerse us in Portland, Oregon, but do not be fooled: the collection of ten … More

Disembodied, a book-length fragmented fiction by Christina Tudor-Sideri, reviewed by S. D. Stewart

In his fragmentary work The Step Not Beyond (State University of New York Press, 1992; translated by Lycette Nelson), Maurice … More

Dave Fitzgerald on Interrogating the Abyss, collected works by Chris Kelso

What is the abyss? Several years back, I went hiking in the Catskills with my now-wife, my childhood best friend, … More

Where Are the Snows, a poetry collection by Kathleen Rooney, reviewed by Esa Grigsby

As the cover suggests, these poems are a winding wry road towards the hell Rooney, almost delightfully, explains is Earth, … More

The Not Yet Fallen World, new and selected poems by Stephen Dunn, reviewed by Jeanne Griggs

The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems, by Stephen Dunn, offers poems from his nineteen volumes of poetry … More

“All Your Base Are Belong to Us”: Jacob Collins-Wilson on Roger Reeves’ second poetry collection Best Barbarian

Best Barbarian is Roger Reeves’ second book of poetry and it is a beast, as it wants to be. It … More

Shannon Nakai Reviews Equestrian Monuments, a poetry collection by Luis Chaves

Eleven years after the publication of Monumentos Ecuestres (Editorial Germinal, 2011) by Luis Chaves, one of Costa Rica’s most celebrated … More

Corey Qureshi on Alexandrine Ogundimu’s Novella Agitation

So many people are often on the verge of full collapse. A handful of or even just one missing check … More

Cinema, a novel by Samuel Kaye, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

Long before I started writing book reviews, I had a steady (unpaid) gig writing movie reviews (and still contribute occasional, … More