Review: Swollening
The vulnerability in Swollening is best described as teeth being pulled, leaving you “jaw detached and tooth emptied.”
Issue #96
Review: MANIFEST (zine) #7
This water-themed issue of MANIFEST (zine) makes way for text and art contributions from a number of “friends and fellow creative spirits” who all lived near the Connecticut shoreline.
Review: Dumb-Show
Fawn Parker ridicules the academy and unchecked privilege. She also takes more than a few shots at poisonous celebrities along the way. The result is a truly glorious mash up of the academia of a novel like Lucky Jim and the medieval sand trap from the film The Duel.
Review: Notes
The form and name of the zine come from the out-of-the-box app Notes, available on Apple devices. It thoroughly assumes the clinical, sanitized trappings of Apple paraphernalia, with white glossy paper and rounded corners, like a manual found tucked inside a freshly-opened iPhone box.
Shut Up and Vibe: Racer Trash’s Movie Joyride
The Racer Trash film collective is dead, but its tire tracks remain streaked across the fringes of cinema.
Review: Behind the Zines: A Zine About Zines #13
The latest issue in this rewarding compilation mega/meta-zine offers several contributions that detail histories and origin stories of other zines.
Review: Hyperbolic Trajectories
Outer space, as both a place and a concept, holds a great deal of significance for each of the artists in this anthology. Characters reflect on lost possibilities; moments of intimacy or insecurity, including Soviet space dog Laika.
Review: SCRIED FUNDAMENTS
Bent by the crystal ball we’re peering into as much as by the off-kilter discourse of the person who’s speaking, MLA Chernoff’s SCRIED FUNDAMENTS is is attention-grabbing, clever and regularly baffling.
Review: Death Threat
“Doesn’t being trolled on the internet go hand in hand with being feminine?” asks Vivek Shraya in Death Threat, an account of being harassed by a stranger in 2017.
Maximillian Alvarez on The Work of Living, COVID and The Unfathomable Loss of One Million Lives
“How can we quantify all that’s been stolen from us? How can we forgive the failures of our governments and our economic system whose callousness, greed, and jingoistic competitiveness made this all so much worse than it could have been?”
Review: Out from the Void #4
Brenton Gicker is a registered nurse, a journalist, an EMT and a crisis worker — roles that, taken together, make him a witness to and testifier of struggle, injustice, disappearances and abuses of power among police.
Review: Your Very Own
Through erasure, removal and additions, John Nyman create their own rendition of a 1985 choose your own adventure novel. The narratives found through their erasure is one that supplants the somewhat stereotypical and white patriarchal norms that hang over many 80s Americana quests.