Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days
Jace Brittain02.19.15
The End of Days explores the strange terrain between life and death. Jace Brittain reviews.
You Got Somethin’ To Say?: A Review of Andrew Worthington’s Walls
Norman Feliks02.12.15
Norman Feliks investigates the hauntingly Nietzschean aspects of Andrew Worthington’s debut novel, Walls.
“We had 3D in my day and we called it AMERICA.”” On Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Mark Baumer02.05.15
Mark Baumer goes deep line by line into the bloodbath of language that is Patricia Lockwood’s Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals.
A Review of Don Mee Choi’s Freely Frayed,ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation
Joyelle McSweeney01.20.15
Freely Frayed takes a look at how the work of Korean poets such as Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon grapple with the US’s manipulation of their home country as a military toy. Joyelle McSweeney reviews.
A Review of Sade Murphy’s Dream Machine
Vi Khi Nao01.08.15
Can orgasms backfire? Sade Murphy investigates sublime sexual territory and where it borders against the dream. Vi Khi Nao reviews.
Oh Baby I Like It Raw (Just Not That Raw)
Jim Ruland01.05.15
The Dirty Version explores the conundrums of the Wu-Tang Clan’s most notorious member, Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Jim Ruland reviews.
The Brain That You Want In The Moment That You Want It: A Review of Steven Zultanski’s Bribery
Ed Steck12.30.14
Bribery bears witness as an unrelenting cavalcade of American grotesquery. Ed Steck reviews.
One Prism of History: On Desire and Secrecy in Wendy Ortiz’s Excavation: A Memoir
Lucy Tiven12.22.14
Identity, fallibility, and self-discovery weave a provocative intuitive fabric for Wendy Ortiz’s memoir centered around a relationship with her teacher. Lucy Tiven reviews.
John Dermot Woods’s Love/Hate Letter to Baltimore
Amber Sparks12.09.14
Amber Sparks tackles the psychosis of a city unraveling in John Dermot Woods’s self-illustrated new novel, The Baltimore Atrocities.
The New Set of Teeth You Don’t Know How to Grow
Nicholas Grider12.08.14
Lamb’s latest album, Backspace Unwind, provides emotional clarity and foundation for Nicholas Grider during trying times.
