Book Review

Prison Pit

book review: Prison Pit Prison Pit is the first book-length work by renowned scatological cartoonist Johnny Ryan, and while it […]

Bone Dream

book review: Bone Dream Moira MacDougall’s Bone Dream stands poised like a dancer’s perfectly still body; lungs clasping air tightly. […]

Orioles in the Oranges

book review: Orioles in the Oranges “I decorate the inside of his wallet with wings.” Memorable lines such as this […]

Security Posture

book review: Security Posture The syntax and rhythms stutter and glitch like scratched CDs, and if it’s an air of […]

Always Die Before Your Mother

book review: Always Die Before Your Mother Poetry is an elaborate vessel; so much so, at times, that one may […]

Playing Basra

book review: Playing Basra With its sparse, brutal prose and trashy cast of latchkey kids, Playing Basra, Ed­ward Brown’s debut […]

Caffeine Fueled Revelation Machines

book review: Caffeine Fueled Revelation Machines The bewildered old man holding a mega­phone to his ear on the cover of […]

Copenhagen

book review: Copenhagen The most striking aspect of Katrine Guld­ager’s stick-thin Copenhagen is its econo­my of language–its third-person narrator speaking […]

Expressway

book review: Expressway This whole text is an extended meditation on transportation and modernity. It’s not a quick, flippant read, […]

Because I Have Loved and Hidden it

book review: Because I Have Loved and Hidden it Born in Brooklyn, NY, resident of Mon­treal, president of the Quebec […]

Walkups

book review: Walkups Lance Blomgren’s Walkups was originally published in 2000. Nine years later and this short, so-called “novella” is […]

The Players

book review: The Players Margaret Sweatman’s The Players is a novel that possesses the power to draw the reader into […]