Wherever You Lodge: On Green Girl

Kari Larsen

07.10.14

Kari Larsen underlines the importance of the portrayal of contemporary young women in new fiction, through the lens of Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl.

The Screaming Silence: An Interview with Michael Salerno

Thomas Moore

07.09.14

Thomas Moore takes part in conversation with Michael Salerno about his latest film, Silence.

Christmas Island & Andrew Jackson Jihad’s View of the World Through a Lens of Junk

Kaptain Carbon

07.08.14

Kaptain Carbon takes a look at the latest release from Andrew Jackson Jihad, folk punk, and dividing audiences.

On Distance and Departure: A Review of Spencer Madsen’s You Can Make Anything Sad

Lucy Tiven

07.07.14

Lucy Tiven unpacks the threads of affection, love, masturbation, and humanity alive in Spencer Madsen’s You Can Make Anything Sad.

We Built This City

Anna Vitale

07.04.14

Get gold with guns, butter, shinola, and all such other slow wild stacked up today in Independence via a new poem by Anna Vitale, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.

I Never Want to Sweat Blood: An Interview with Megan Martin

Sarah Rose Etter

07.03.14

Megan Martin opens up about her gunshot of a book, Nevers, foxes, R. Kelly, academia, and feeling like an outsider. Dig in.

What Does Art Owe Us?

Weston Cutter

07.02.14

A review of Blake J. Harris’s Console Wars, a letdown of a book about the ‘generation-defining’ battle between Sega and Nintendo.

A Review of Change Machine

Ginger Ko

07.01.14

Bruce Covey’s latest, Change Machine, employs a wide range of styles, tactics, impressions, to wondrous result. Ginger Ko reviews.

Body Map: Ears

Ashley Bethard

06.30.14

Body Map is a series that invites authors to write about the body. In this installment, Ashley Bethard takes on ears, putty, and suspension.

Fear Not (Provided You Fear)

Jacqueline Waters

06.27.14

A moving new poem by Jacqueline Waters, selected by Spring poetry editor Molly Brodak.