The Mountains Are Strip-Mined: A Review of Scott McClanahan’s Hill William

11.04.13

Scott McClanahan’s latest novel, Hill William, newly released from Tyrant Books, reheats the miracle beneath the darkness of the everyday. Eric Nelson reviews.

A Review of Lauren Shufran’s Inter Arma

Drew Kalbach

11.03.13

Lauren Shufran’s Inter Arma confronts a hyper-sexual and violent aesthetic history in the voice of a militant duck. Drew Kalbach reviews.

Wastoid (an excerpt)

Mathias Svalina

11.01.13

Blooming and bombing stand side by side in two text blocks excerpted from a new book by Mathias Svalina, curated by our Fall poetry editor, Ella Longpre.

A Review of Drake’s Nothing Was The Same ft. Philip Roth

Mark Baumer

10.31.13

Mark Baumer reviews Drake’s Nothing Was The Same in the only way that a Drake album should be reviewed: with almost no description of the actual music.

Postparoxysmal Event Space

M Kitchell

10.30.13

Erotics, the afterlife, seclusion, God, and landscapes form the fundamental architecture of an affective new fiction from M Kitchell.

My Issues Surrounding Intellectual Accessibility Projected Onto The Work Of Joost Swarte

Chelsea Martin

10.29.13

Chelsea Martin takes a look at the cartoons of Joost Swarte, and their ability to appeal to a wide range while handling complex ideas in the same breath.

Ben Fama Interviews Vanessa Place

Ben Fama

10.28.13

Ben Fama in conversation with Vanessa Place regarding conceptualism, Trayvon Martin, the founding of self as corporation, and justice.

Old Question

Emily Toder

10.25.13

A new long poem from mind-bending Emily Toder, selected by Fall poetry series curator, Ella Longpre.

Super Specific Predictions for the 2013-2014 NBA Season

Seth Landman

10.24.13

With the 2013-2014 NBA season about to kick off, the next six months promise to be chock full of dudes dunking on dudes, dudes blocking dudes’ shots, and lots of big air. In anticipation, Seth Landman offers five predictions of the most exciting plays we’ve yet to witness.

Cloud That Looks Like Jesus

Robert Lopez

10.23.13

Existentially frying new short fiction from the always potent Robert Lopez. Art by Danny Jock.

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