A Review of American Innovations by Rivka Galchen
Mark Baumer09.22.14
Robin Williams, Tom Brady, and Chelsey Minnis all show up to play in Mark Baumer’s review-digression of Rivka Galchen latest novel.
Born to Be Wild: Melissa Broder’s Poetics of Ritual Illumination
Lucy Tiven09.11.14
Despite its rampant darkness (or somehow in light of it), Melissa Broder’s Scarecrone is rich in spirit, fire, awe. Lucy Tiven reviews.
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is the Best Game Ever, So What
Kati Heng09.08.14
Kati Heng plays Kim Kardashian: Hollywood so you don’t have to.
A Review of Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment
Stacy Elaine Dacheux09.04.14
Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment provokes questions such as, “Is Kim Kardashian a modern day Patty Hearst?” and “What is acting and what is drugs?” Stacy Elaine Dacheux reviews.
A Review of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
Garret Travis08.26.14
The second title in James VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation, provides a comfortable glimpse into the New Weird. Garret Travis reviews.
“How Much Can a Body Endure?”: A Review of Chelsea Hodson’s Pity The Animal
Alexandra Wuest08.19.14
Chelsea Hodson’s chapbook essay unpacks the effect of the male gaze on the female body. Alexandra Wuest reviews.
Notes on Three Pages of Thomas Piketty’s Capital
Mark Baumer08.14.14
Do you read Thomas Piketty? Didn’t think so. Mark Baumer didn’t really either, but gleans all we need to know about Capital from the first three pages of the book.
Every Song On Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence
Jordan Castro08.07.14
Jordan Castro provides his track by track review of Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence.
A Cunny Poet’s Beautiful Book
Stephen Tully Dierks07.31.14
A look at the multiplying and frequently uncanny themes and feelings in Bunny Rogers’ rhizomatic poetry collection, Cunny Poem Vol. 1. Stephen Tully Dierks reviews.
“From a reflection in both paintings”: Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future as the Fragments of Narrative
Laura Carter07.22.14
Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future passes over and over through sleeping and waking states to weave a sense of identity among our mass collective history. Laura Carter reviews.
