Various Violences, Other Bodies: A Review of Kevin Simmonds’s Bend To It
Weston Cutter05.22.14
Weston Cutter reviews Kevin Simmonds’s Bend To It, a collection of poetry that is, among other things, trying to find and offer indivisible moments of music.
Flotation Devices: A Review of The Fun We’ve Had
James Yates05.15.14
James Yates reviews floating coffins, relationship craft, and Michael J. Seidlinger’s The Fun We’ve Had.
What I Have Been Reading: Outdated Dating Advice That Isn’t As Incompatible With Our Current Cultural Moment As I Wish It Was But Why I Enjoyed It Anyway
Hannah Gamble05.13.14
Hannah Gamble reads Helen Gurley Brown’s 1962 book Sex and the Single Girl and tries to square it with contemporary experience.
When I Was Younger, I Too Saved the Earth Many Times: A Review of EarthBound
Frances Chiem05.08.14
Frances Dinger explores Ken Baumann’s textual exploration of the totally bizarre cult video game, EarthBound.
Gush and Daydream: A Review of Sun Kil Moon’s Benji
Michael J. Seidlinger04.29.14
Michael J. Seidlinger takes a drunken look at the affective experience of Sun Kil Moon’s latest, Benji.
A Paradise Lost: A Review of Camenisch’s The Alp
Nathaniel Popkin04.17.14
Nathaniel Popkin offers an incisive take on existential terror and the symphonic bursts of The Alp, just out from the Dalkey Archive.
Fifty Life Lessons from Sam Pink’s Witch Piss
Mark Baumer04.10.14
What can you learn from Witch Piss? Mark Baumer elucidates fifty deeper understandings one may gather from the mind of Sam Pink.
A Review of Patrick Durgin’s PQRS
Drew Kalbach04.08.14
Soliloquy, essay, poetry, fiction, and drama come together as a single body in the latest form-bender from Patrick Durgin. Drew Kalbach reviews.
Von Trier Has Dark Fun with the Big Questions
Stephen Tully Dierks04.03.14
Everything you might expect and some you probably didn’t is alive in Von Trier’s latest, Nymphomaniac. Stephen Tully Dierks reviews.
No Weather for Memory to Live in: A Review of Damnation
M. Milks04.01.14
A mysterious book that pollutes everyone who comes in contact with it; a system of ordered hopelessness; the steady panic of an endless grid of noise: Damnation is a book that will make you afraid to be alone with it. Megan Milks reviews.
