“What’s Missing?”: Benjamin Kinney on the Quest for Identity in Shawn Rubenfeld’s THE EGGPLANT CURSE AND THE WARP ZONE

Joshua Schulman is a modern-day Pac-Man: powering his way through a path he cannot predict, all while being haunted by … More

NEWER TESTAMENTS, a novel by Philip Brunetti, reviewed by Nora E. Webb

Beautiful, haunting, and decidedly subversive, Newer Testaments invites us to explore the metaphysical, the hypothetical, and the hallucinatory. It follows … More

Frederick Arias: Opera kitsch for RITUALS PERFORMED IN THE ABSENCE OF GANYMEDE by Mike Corrao

Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede emphasizes the ludological role of abstract anatomies and how they project different erotic … More

Esteban Rodríguez Reviews EDINBURGH NOTEBOOK, an Action Books poetry collection by Valerie Mejer Caso

There is no telling what anyone’s reaction to death will be, but for many putting pen to paper helps process … More

Maria Judnick Reviews CALL IT HORSES, a Dzanc Books epistolary road novel by Jessie van Eerden

“I write you about the dead. I write you to stay alive and, after all this time, I write you, … More

“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