Charles Bukowski called love a dog from hell but Tyler Dempsey shows it to be an animal resilient enough to withstand arctic freezes and the weeks-long days and...
September 22nd, 2023: I take a copy of Death Egg to a cabin in Wisconsin. Unable to read. A goat that has found its way onto the porch keeps trying to eat it.
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On February 16th, 2021, a writer downloaded FaceApp and fed it some childhood photos. The program alters race, age, and—most crucially, in this case—gender, to ...
Detecting violence is easy because it is transparent, we know and feel it when we see it, but locating the origins of violence (the why always covertly peeking ...
Bennett Sims, celebrated for his acclaimed works like "White Dialogues," skillfully crafts a captivating tapestry of surreal and absurdist narratives that will ...
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...
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...