Though we rarely speak of it today, humanity has always existed in a captivating world of superstitions full of myths of summoning shadows, broken mirrors, and ...
The 1970s and ‘80s in Japan were a time of profound change. The nation, after the war, had built itself up in the international eyes as an example of a high-t...
Prepare to embark on a surrealist odyssey of theatrical absurdity with Benjamin Niespodziany's remarkable collection of one-act plays, Cardboard Clouds, from X-...
"What the cluck? How can a book be medical? I don't know and I'm not going to ask any questions because D.T. Robbins scares me. In a good way! I wish to express...
A Review of Jaded by Wilson Koewing
Think nothing of mind or spirit whilst reading Jaded. It is neither the time or place to do so. Instead, focus on...
A Review of The Craigslist Incident by Jason Fisk
“Women Seeking Men: I’m an 18-year-old female and I want to take a hit out on myself.” This is the ...
A Review of Immoral Origins: A Suspense Thriller by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Welcome to a land full of gangsters, murderers, petty thieves, and mysterious ...
I clicked the power button on my laptop five times, holding it down for varying lengths, and determined that my laptop was, indeed, dead. I considered how much ...
Language is a trident. Its three prongs are culture, community, and imperium. In Yoko Tawada’s brilliant novel Scattered All Over the Earth, translated from the...
We all have bad thoughts sometimes and Nada Alic somehow manages to fit as many deviant thoughts she can think of in this enchanting debut collection of stories...
In The Distortions, Christopher Linforth explores the mundanities of life that continue to exist after war, where generational grief continues to linger. In the...
Set in a small and haunted New Jersey town, Tobias Carroll’s fourth book (and second novel) is a patchwork portrait that illuminates as much by what it leaves i...
Kelly McClure doesn’t do subtle very well and with her newest novel, Something Is Always Happening Somewhere, she has no intention to. The blows throughout this...
As Sex and the City meets an episode of Black Mirror, we follow a myriad of eerie narratives throughout C.E. Hoffman’s text Sluts and Whores. Though seemingly o...
Trish McDonald’s Paper Bags is aptly titled. The text gradually unpacks the effects of deep-rooted wounds, measured suffering collected through complacency and ...
How many metaphors are made between writing and the creation of clothing? Social fabric, spinning a yarn, the weave of the text, stitching poetics—they seem as...
To step into New Madrid is to step into a new reality entirely. From the first sentences, it is immediately felt that the world that Robert Tomaino has built is...
I don’t know what happened in 2021 because I’m still trying to process 2020. Yet here we are at the end of it getting ready to welcome 2022 in hopes that thing...
Patrick Trotti’s The Persistence of Instability addresses addiction in all manifestations. Both substance abuse and abuse of the self are consistently present t...
You can write a long book full of witty metaphors. You can rip off dead writers that graduate students write massive essays about. You can use a nature trope or...
Grace Agnew’s debut dystopian novel analyzes a concept at the very core of modern life, highlighting the results of a neglected climate crisis. In the post-Anth...
There are two ways to approach reviewing this novel. The first would be a look at the term autofiction, trying to address the failures in Lin’s work as well as ...
I’m getting beat up over here trying to decide if everything is lame and pointless or if that's just a condition of my being a millennial. And if something is p...
Emory Easton’s Mother Can You Hear Me Now? is a chronological celebration of life. Bittersweet and tender moments, unfathomable love, and traumatic loss; Easton...
Whimsical—anything but.
Whimsy Quinn, the ironically named anxiety-hero of Shannon McLeod’s 2021 novella Whimsy, is a middle-school English teacher and a wom...
I saw Elle Nash read at KGB on a Friday night. The East Village bar was packed with the usual suspects: friends of the author, aspiring writers, literary social...
Bittersweet and erupting, Funeral for Flaca is a nostalgic memoir must-read for the aging millennial; A nodding anthem for everyone who grew up in the early 200...
“The wasteland of the 20th century is nothing less than a reliquary. Those that came before us have left in their wake an empire of exquisite jewels.”
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