What Are We Violence: Jennifer MacKenzie’s My Not-My Soldier
Kent Shaw03.17.16
Kent Shaw moves through the overwhelm of violence–and the questions of responsibility–in Jennifer MacKenzie’s My Not-My Soldier.
Have you ever been possessed?: A Review of Mike Krutel’s Fogland
Carrie Lorig03.10.16
How can the language of others help us survive? Carrie Lorig takes an introspective look at Mike Krutel’s Fogland.
Three Jawns: Knight of Cups, Good People, and Nox
Sarah Rose Etter03.01.16
In the latest edition of her Three Jawns column, Sarah Rose Etter takes a look at new work by Terrence Malick, Robert Lopez, and Anne Carson.
OPENING LINES TO NOVELS THAT HAVEN’T BEEN WRITTEN
Sam Pink02.25.16
Sam Pink provides insider info on some of the hottest and most buzzed about new forthcoming titles in American lit months before their forthcoming appearance in the Poets & Writers and the New Yorker, including the latest from Tony Churbneetzerelli and Rhythzar the Elder.
Navigating Michael J. Seidlinger’s The Strangest
Daniel Lamb02.22.16
Michael Seidlinger’s The Strangest updates the Camus classic for the online era. Daniel Lamb reviews.
In the Garble: A Review of Alice Notley’s Negativity’s Kiss
Nick Sturm02.18.16
“Negativity’s Kiss imagines a brutal, satirical world where all language and communication, including the answer to who shot (the protagonist) Ines, are mired in the Garble, an internet-like substance that obscures truth.” Nick Sturm reviews Alice Notley.
Bizarre Generosity: A Review of Diane Seuss’s Four-Legged Girl
Nina Puro02.11.16
Nina Puro reviews poet Diane Seuss’s latest collection, Four-Legged Girl, out now from Graywolf Press.
The House is a Woman: A Review of Maison Femme: a fiction by Teresa Carmody with illustrations by Vanessa Place
Andrea Lambert02.04.16
“This may not be about you, but it’s definitely about your friends.” A review of Teresa Carmody’s new book MAISON FEMME: a fiction, out from Bon Aire Projects.
Ideal Home Noise (5): Hairy Who, McCormack, German
Jeff Jackson01.25.16
Jeff Jackson’s fifth installment of Ideal Home Noise takes us into the Hairy Who Publications, Derek McCormack, and Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God.
A Story About the Body: A Review of Rachel Levy’s A Book So Red
Hugh Sheehy01.21.16
Rachel Levy uses episodic metafictional methods to breathe new life into human relations, and the self. Hugh Sheehy reviews.
