Max Heidelberger

An Honest Self: Beyza Ozer’s Fail Better

Max HeidelbergerApril 9, 2017

One of the most disorienting pieces of prose I’ve read is Samuel Beckett’s Westward Ho. In intentionally clipped and fragmented style, Beckett dissects personho...

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Some Further Corrections: A Review of Jack Buck’s Deer Michigan

Max HeidelbergerFebruary 19, 2017

In his 2001 novel The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, himself a child of Midwest, crafts a Midwest that is culturally repressive, a space in which one happens to...

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Of Fathers and Sons: Devin Kelly’s Blood on Blood

Max HeidelbergerJanuary 22, 2017

There’s much that’s been said and written about the rust belt and blue-collar America in the aftermath of the 2016 election. As a cultural group which—very broa...

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A Hysterical Response: Zadie Smith’s “Swing Time”

Max HeidelbergerJanuary 1, 2017

Nearly two decades ago, the critic James Wood coined the term “hysterical realism” to describe the work of a group of emerging novelists at the turn of century....

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Waiting for Death, Or Something Like It: Joseph Parker Okay’s “My Phone Is About to Die & I Hope It Takes Me With It”

Max HeidelbergerNovember 20, 2016

David Foster Wallace’s iconic 90s novel, Infinite Jest, describes a film that is perfect entertainment, so engrossing that viewers can’t look away. Anyone who b...

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Poetry of the Posthuman: A Review of The Plural Space

Max HeidelbergerOctober 30, 2016

The title of Matthew Mahaney’s The Plural Space invites a question: what is the plural space? The plural space could best be described as a liminal place; the...

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The Thing Itself | a Review

Max HeidelbergerOctober 9, 2016

In the acknowledgements at the end of The Thing Itself, Adam Roberts admits that the novel shoehorned him into something of an awkward role: “an atheist writing...

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Fiction

Collections

The Ill-Advised Trip of an Italian Plumber

Airplane Mode

Poetry

Fuck Marry Kill

So It Goes in the Summer of 1993

Get Off My Lawn & While You’re Doing So Don’t Judge Me

Flash Fiction

My Skeleton Wants Out

Ted’s funeral is held at McDonald’s

Stuff

Reviews

A Review of Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward

Hanging in an Alien Sky: a review of “Death Egg” by Nathaniel Duggan

A Review of I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Interviews

An Interview With Abigail Rivera Ramirez

ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis

Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer

Columns

The 21 Best Small Press Books From 2021

Writer of the Week: Tanner Ballengee

Writer of the Week: Jeff Schneider

An Honest Self: Beyza Ozer’s Fail Better

Some Further Corrections: A Review of Jack Buck’s Deer Michigan

Of Fathers and Sons: Devin Kelly’s Blood on Blood

A Hysterical Response: Zadie Smith’s “Swing Time”

Waiting for Death, Or Something Like It: Joseph Parker Okay’s “My Phone Is About to Die & I Hope It Takes Me With It”

Poetry of the Posthuman: A Review of The Plural Space

The Thing Itself | a Review

Max Heidelberger