“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

BRING ME THE HEAD OF QUENTIN TARANTINO, a new collection of short stories by Julián Herbert, reviewed by Jesi Buell (Graywolf Press)

I first became aware of Mexican author Julián Herbert when Graywolf published Christina MacSweeney’s translation of his novel Tomb Songs … More

In Buddhism, I have heard them refer to this as “monkey mind”—that endless chatter of what we are doing, what … More

“How hard a thing is life to the lowly,and yet how human and real!”—W. E. B. Du Bois The Wonder … More

“Whoever languishes in thoughtful reenactmentof the past falls prey to cruel beasts.” —Lee Klein In his latest novel, Lee Klein introduces … More

The Wolf was a Wolf, and had an innate wolfishness, which manifested itself in his longing to devour The Pretty … More

Neil and Other Stories is a prepossessing examination of a parent’s influence on the internal life of their child. At … More