Sarah Sousa’s See the Wolf (CavanKerry, 2018) is a collection of familiar cautionary tales around the metonymic “Big […]
Reviews
“Every last one of us wears knee-high boots, my lovely, / we live in a booted nation. A […]
The Feeling of Security: A Review of Rachel Galvin’s Elevated ...
A novel teaches you how to read it. In the novels that make up Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy, […]
The Novel as Metaphor: A Review of Rachel Cusk’s Kudos
Kenji C. Liu’s new collection, Monsters I Have Been, is the product of a manifesto: at once a […]
So Many Side-Eyes: Experiments of Resistance in Kenji C. Liu’s ...
What do you know about Modernism? The Process Art Movement? How do you feel about Modern Art? You […]
Ekphrasis Hybrid: Portrait of the Mermaid in a Mirror
In an interview with LitHub, Kazuo Ishiguro has advised writers to let go of genre boundaries, to start […]
“Being both inside and outside”: A Review of Erik Anderson’s ...
In El más crudo invierno, his book-length meditation on seven lines by Peruvian poet Blanca Varela, Mario Montalbetti […]
“But not a word survives” —A review of Mario Montalbetti’s ...
In an interview from 2014, the American novelist Jumpa Lahiri is quoted as saying: “Language, identity, place, home: […]
“The Exhilaration of Life Out of Place”: On Asiya Wadud’s ...
In Austin Smith’s sophomore collection, Flyover Country, there are bucolic echoes of what made Smith’s first collection, Almanac, […]
Flyover Country: As Mindset & Act of Colonization and Aggression
Mary is a River is the third collection by Rachel Jamison Webster that I’ve read. What draws me […]
Making Faith Possible—On Rachel Jamison Webster’s Mary is a River
Only, perhaps, in a poem by David Tomas Martinez is one likely to encounter, in the span of […]
“Being made again”—Hyper-talk & Grace in David Tomas Martinez’ Post ...
“It wasn’t her fault. She wasn’t the shell I was after.” So ends Analicia Sotelo’s “I’m Trying […]