Book Review

Siberia

Siberia is Nikolai Maslov’s personal account of his life as a young man coming of age against the desolate backdrop […]

Nog a Dod

Collected by Marc Bell, Nog a Dod samples close to a decade of Canadian doodle comics and ephemera. I find […]

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Poet Sharon Harris is plugged into the past as well as the future. That’s what the best poetry does: it […]

Cigarette Salad

Experimental and political, Mike Freeman’s poems sometimes work and sometimes don’t. The author uses a lot of alliteration, as in […]

First Comes Love

Pino Coluccio is an amazing writer. The origins of a shoe salesman’s fetish are explored in “Life’s Work.” The mundane […]

Stranger in My Skin

This is an unusual bildungsroman by Alysa Phillips that spans over eight years of the author’s own life and takes […]

The Emily Valentine Poems

Zoe Whittall’s book of poetry begins with a sense of frustration: “You have love and the word love, but the […]

Trash

Who would have known our relationship with trash would amass so much interest? Philosophers, artists, journalists and poets give garbage […]