The Secret Life of Girls: A Review of Nobody Is Ever Missing
Courtney Maum06.23.14
Courtney Maum reviews cult favorites, mordant humor, and Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey.
Bald New World
Vi Khi Nao06.19.14
“What will it take to regrow or manufacture a soul?” asks Vi Khi Nao, in her exploration of Peter Liu’s existential metafiction, Bald New World.
Babble Cry: A Review of mUtter-bAbel
Paul Cunningham06.12.14
Voids and wombs and wounds abound in Christine Wertheim’s latest onslaught, mUtter-bAbel. Paul Cunningham reviews.
My Own Saint: A Review of Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
Nathaniel Popkin06.11.14
Nathaniel Popkin reviews despair, evil, organs, and The Letters of James Agee to Father Flye.
Thoughts on Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones
Mark Baumer06.02.14
Mark Baumer takes his wild eye to Shane Jones’s newest novel, Crystal Eaters, released this week from Two Dollar Radio.
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What I Have Been Reading: Outdated Dating Advice That Isn’t As Incompatible With Our Current Cultural Moment As I Wish It Was But Why I Enjoyed It Anyway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.
Time Unregained: Billy Corgan’s Siddhartha
Jimmy Chen05.12.14
Jimmy Chen takes a hard look into Billy Corgan’s hard look into Hermann Hesse’s spiritual Siddhartha.
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.
