OUTRÉ, a “Hörnblowér” novel by D. Harlan Wilson, reviewed by Evan St. Jones

Intro. The world building in D. Harlan Wilson’s Outré slaps you in the face during its introduction and never shows … More

MONA AT SEA, a novel by Elizabeth Gonzalez James, reviewed by Maria Judnick

“I’m unemployed, I’ve never had a boyfriend, I live with my parents in the most boring town on the planet, … More

“the sun I can afford”: Zachary Kinsella on Protest and Compromise in that’s what you get by Sheila Maldonado

that’s what you get, Sheila Maldonado’s second full-length collection, offers rich, emotional weight with a kind of ease that is … More

“Matthew Burnside Crafts Stories from a Wiki”: Michael Maiello Investigates the novel WIKI OF INFINITE SORROWS

Wiki is an acronym for “What I Know Is,” and wikis have sprung up all over the internet, covering everything … More

DEATH AND SO FORTH, scintillating short fictions told and retold by Gordon Lish, reviewed by Nathan Blake

A woman leaves town on business, phones her husband when the plane touches down. “How’s the cat?” she asks. “The … More

“An Examination of My Mother’s Life through the Poetry of Nehassaiu deGannes”: MUSIC FOR EXILE Reviewed by Byron Armstrong

Read aloud, Nehassaiu deGannes’ new book of poetry, Music for Exile, might sound like my grandmother crooning lullabies to the … More

Edward M. Cohen’s BEFORE STONEWALL, an Awst Press novel selected by T Kira Madden, reviewed by Stephanie Bohland

A life in the closet, a life before Stonewall, was an act of performativity—a daily exercise in trying to simultaneously … More

THE REINCARNATIONS by Nathan Elias, a story collection from Montag Press, reviewed by Pedro Ponce

The elevator pitch version of this review might read something like “Twin Peaks meets Raymond Carver.” In his debut story … More

I WILL NOT NAME IT EXCEPT TO SAY by Lee Sharkey: A Poetry Review by Robert Dunsdon

Young poets, hotheads newly converted and ablaze with ideas, crane their necks and clear their throats, eager for their song … More

AND THEN THE GRAY HEAVEN, a novel by RE Katz, reviewed by Lillian Barfield

And Then the Gray Heaven by RE Katz centers around Jules, a queer young adult who has emerged from foster … More

A Review of Alice Kaltman’s DAWG TOWNE by Alexandra Pennington

Alice Kaltman’s novel Dawg Towne features interchangeable narrative perspectives among six members of the tiny suburban Towne who each offer … More

QUEENZENGLISH.MP3, a poetry | philosophy | performativity anthology edited by Kyoo Lee, reviewed by Ben Tripp

Most publishers now are more risk-averse than ever. And this while also, globally, we are led to believe that English … More

A THOUSAND CURVES, a Red Mountain Editor’s Choice Award-winning poetry collection by Paul Nemser, reviewed by Noreen Hernandez

Paul Nemser’s childhood connection to poetry began in Portland, Oregon, where he passed the time reading poems in the storage … More

Peter Valente: “Notes on John Wieners’ ‘A Poem for Painters'” (SELECTED POEMS 1958-1984), written after reading Bill Berkson’s SUDDEN ADDRESS (Cuneiform Press, 2010)

In “A Poem for Painters,” John Wieners writes: Paul Klee scratched for seven yearson smoked glass, to develophis line, LaVigne … More

Becca Yenser on Reading Brian Phillip Whalen’s SEMIOTIC LOVE [STORIES]

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” So writes Joan Didion in her book, The White Album. That statement … More