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.
Two Movies With Sasha Fletcher
Sasha Fletcher03.27.14
Have you ever wanted to pop a bowl of popcorn and watch a movie with Sasha Fletcher? All of your dreams have come true as he reviews Blue Valentine and Melancholia.
Wake Up For The First Time Again
Joyelle McSweeney03.26.14
A new translation of The Metamorphosis evokes shades of Gus Van Sant-like youth. Joyelle McSweeney reviews.
Daniel Bailey’s Gather Me
Mark Baumer03.19.14
Daniel Bailey brings love and money together with dead astronauts. Mark Baumer reviews.
A Review of Tanya Olson’s Boyishly
Weston Cutter03.06.14
Weston Cutter fumbles with trying to articulate exactly what Tanya Olson’s doing, and how and why it’s so compelling, in her collection, Boyishly.
A Review of Joshua Corey’s Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy
Laura Carter02.26.14
An early look at Joshua Corey’s An American Elegy, a strategic exploration of the terrain between mother and detective. Laura Carter reviews.
