Memory As Story: A Review of Find Me
Amber Sparks03.31.15
Amber Sparks dives into the memory, loss, and apocalypse in Laura van den Berg’s Find Me.
Place, Family, Face, Name: on Ibeyi’s Ibeyi
Kati Heng03.26.15
Kati Heng listens to French-Cuban duo Iyebi’s self-titled debut album and tries to wrestle with the ways we can and cannot handle musical heritage.
Blurred Lines: As We Know by Amaranth Borsuk and Andy Fitch
Gina Myers03.18.15
As We Know redefines the writer/editor relationship by blurring all boundaries between them. Gina Myers reviews.
Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days
Jace Brittain02.19.15
The End of Days explores the strange terrain between life and death. Jace Brittain reviews.
You Got Somethin’ To Say?: A Review of Andrew Worthington’s Walls
Norman Feliks02.12.15
Norman Feliks investigates the hauntingly Nietzschean aspects of Andrew Worthington’s debut novel, Walls.
The Master At Play
Jake Valento02.09.15
Jake Valento looks closely at Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice and finds a film that’s more than the sum of its shaggy-dog pot-smoked parts.
“We had 3D in my day and we called it AMERICA.”” On Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Mark Baumer02.05.15
Mark Baumer goes deep line by line into the bloodbath of language that is Patricia Lockwood’s Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals.
On Bjork’s Vulnicura
Nicholas Grider01.26.15
Nicholas Grider takes a look at the emotional heft of Bjork’s latest.
A Review of Don Mee Choi’s Freely Frayed,ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation
Joyelle McSweeney01.20.15
Freely Frayed takes a look at how the work of Korean poets such as Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon grapple with the US’s manipulation of their home country as a military toy. Joyelle McSweeney reviews.
A Review of Sade Murphy’s Dream Machine
Vi Khi Nao01.08.15
Can orgasms backfire? Sade Murphy investigates sublime sexual territory and where it borders against the dream. Vi Khi Nao reviews.
