OMG Embarrassing Yourself Is the Best Art: A Review of E-Flux Journal
Janey Smith12.19.13
Janey Smith interrogates the definition, effect, marketability, and reception of contemporary art in the age of YouTube.
Alt Lit Has Fake Race Problems and Real Race Problems
Safy-Hallan Farah12.16.13
An updated (and partially reframed) look at Safy-Hallan Farah’s examination of issues of race, gender, and homophobia within the Alt Lit movement.
Figures for an Apocalypse: A Dissection
Amber Sparks11.06.13
Edward Mullany’s newest is a vision of the world ending that eschews blood and guts for true, deep dread. Amber Sparks reviews.
The Mountains Are Strip-Mined: A Review of Scott McClanahan’s Hill William
Eric Nelson11.04.13
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 Kalbach11.03.13
Lauren Shufran’s Inter Arma confronts a hyper-sexual and violent aesthetic history in the voice of a militant duck. Drew Kalbach reviews.
A Review of Drake’s Nothing Was The Same ft. Philip Roth
Mark Baumer10.31.13
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.
What is Sought: A Review of Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Lucy Tiven10.21.13
Stark, slippery language and shape-shifting poems make The Eternal City a book worth defacing, underlining, annotating. Lucy Tiven reviews the best book of poetry she almost never bought.
I Reviewed the Most Disturbing Children’s Book of All Time
Shane Jones09.12.13
Meta language that makes Calvino look like a pussy and design seemingly “concocted from a dinner date with Matt Furie and Ryan Trecartin”, “Oscar’s Book is basically twenty three pages of Oscar the Grouch yelling, specifically, at the reader and their child”. Shane Jones reviews the most disturbing (and one of the best) kids books ever.
Turning Everything Inside Out/ Imagination and Memory: An Interview with Jeff Jackson
Thomas Moore09.10.13
Fanzine sits down with Jeff Jackson to talk about intermediate consciousness, haunting childhood recollections, and writing through a hypnagogic haze in his debut novel, Mira Corpora.
Possession: Once Upon a Time in America
Mark Asch11.29.12
Thirty years on there’s yet another cut of Sergio Leone’s epic of assimilation in the early 20th century, Once Upon A Time In America where murder, rape, booze and opium make the palette of a focus of nature, red in tooth and claw. Mark Asch reviews on the occasion of a Film Forum screening.
