“Can a chainsaw be a god? A masked person’s bare hands?”
Featuring eighteen essays that braid together memoir and criticism, Gina Nutt’s debut collection Nig...
There are few collections as charming as Shy Watson’s Horror Vacui (House of Vlad, 2021). Divided into three sections—Poems, Waking Dreams, and Quarantine Diari...
Rachel Genn’s second novel, What You Could Have Won (And Other Stories, 2020), chronicles a well-worn path to fame. After a crucial misstep in his career, faili...
The Weak Spot is the first novel from Lucie Elven and Soft Skull Press ushers it into our lives at precisely the right time. A young woman relocates to an isola...
I first found Matt Mitchell’s work in 2020: A Meat Loaf-quoting, love-struck poem that made me homesick for summers in a town I’ve never visited. That same warm...
As we begin to steady ourselves in another year rife with unsteady circumstances, a parallel urgency emerges within. The questions arrive slowly, then in quick ...
Jenny Hval’s Girls Against God reads as an imagistic compendium of surrealist cinema and subcultural manifesto. The text follows a self-proclaimed provincial go...
While the timing of its English publication is embarrassingly relevant, Vigdis Hjorth’s Long Live the Post Horn! offers welcomed relief: an existential crisis o...
Though you might recognize Will Johnson as the voice behind Denton-based band Centro-Matic, his debut novel warrants a distinction of its own merit. If or When ...
On August 23, a week after Prime Day, Nancy Bass Wyden, the third-generation owner of New York’s iconic Strand Book Store, took to Twitter. “We need your help,”...
The women in Jules Archer’s Little Feasts are hungry. They’re chowing down on fat slices of tempeh, ripping napkins apart while watching the Investigation Disco...
Brian Evenson’s words unsteady the best of readers. They stretch circumstance to convey the uncertain and unsettling; they confuse, morph; lead you to a room in...
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’ debut collection won the 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, and it’s no surprise why: Sleepovers is at once dark and allur...