Uniquely Qualified Observer: Donna Stonecipher’s Model City
Kent Shaw01.05.16
A contemporary relative to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Donna Stonecipher’s Model City threads the idea of a multiplicity of place into one immense Model City. Kent Shaw reviews.
Album Roundup: December 2015
Scott Creney12.28.15
Scott Creney listens to a slew of new releases and finds—aside from Grimes’ latest—quite a bit that’s worth the bother, including Antlered Aunt Lord, PC Worship, and Lubomyr Melnyk.
In a Mirror Maze: A Review of Derek McCormack’s The Well-Dressed Wound
Lonely Christopher12.22.15
The Devil assumes the form of Martin Margiela in one of 2015’s most decadent and best new books. Lonely Christopher reviews.
Arriving is like Drowning: Joanna Walsh’s Vertigo
David Schuman12.17.15
With their distance and unhurried urgency, their syntactic pinpointing and clarity, the narrators in Joanna Walsh’s Vertigo are vital, unsettling companions. David Schuman reviews.
Getting to Funky Town: On Lyric and Fantasy in Micah Ling’s Flashes of Life
Lucy Tiven12.10.15
Ekphrasis takes on pop icons from David Bowie to Otis Redding in Micah Ling’s latest collection. Lucy Tiven reviews.
“Smitten by the algae”: A Review of There Was So Much Beautiful Left
Manuel Arturo Abreu12.03.15
manuel arturo abreu examines the line between trauma and tragedy at work in Raul Alvarez’s stylistically wild debut collection, There Was So Much Beautiful Left.
Ideal Home Noise (4): Chytilova, Ocampo, Bourgeois
Jeff Jackson11.12.15
Jeff Jackson with his latest monthly roundup of stimulating creations, this month including the work of Vera Chytilova, Silvina Ocampo, and Louise Bourgeois.
Of Death and Los Angeles
Erin Wisti11.09.15
Erin Wisti’s essay on her trip to the Museum of Death in Los Angeles.
Numb & Number – The Revolution Will Not Be Brooklynized
Scott Creney11.03.15
Scott Creney tries to find anything other than Joshua Cohen and Ben Lerner in the new ‘novels’ from Joshua Cohen and Ben Lerner.
Ruin Review 1
Sean Kilpatrick10.27.15
The first of an ongoing series by Detroit native Sean Kilpatrick, in which the author takes work as a door-to-door fundraiser in a city already in the midst of immeasurable decay.
