We Were Witches, underground literary goddess Ariel Gore’s newest novel, should be required reading, and I’m not even going to amend that sentence to explain for whom.… Read more “A Review of We Were Witches by Ariel Gore”
Category: Fiction Reviews
A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise
The characters of A.C. Wise‘s stories in The Kissing Booth Girl (Lethe Press, 2016) are outsiders, every one of them. Some have secrets and hide in plain sight, others… Read more “A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise”
Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one Here is the U.S.,… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done”
A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid’s much-anticipated fourth novel Exit Westmakes deft use of a single fantastical element to create a magical realist novel of tremendous effect. Often, magical realism is an… Read more “A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid”
Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth
About a hundred years ago, the U.S. government very nearly gave the green light to a plan that would have brought hippopotamuses to the American South as… Read more “Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth”
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
I was introduced to Daphne du Maurier the way most people were introduced to Daphne du Maurier: someone told me I absolutely had to read Rebecca, and so… Read more “My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier”
A Review of Bradford Tatum’s Only the Dead Know Burbank
Bradford Tatum’s debut novel is ninety percent of a great book. I’m not docking it because it lacks the magic to push it over the top, or… Read more “A Review of Bradford Tatum’s Only the Dead Know Burbank”
A Review of How To Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
We’re just running down a fucking slope carrying these little flags, and one by one we get shot and we slump and our little flags are in… Read more “A Review of How To Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball”
A Review of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
When she wanted to forget the Castle, she thought of these things, but she did not expect joy. Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment… Read more “A Review of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi”
A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels is about werewolves. Except it isn’t. Not really. It’s about being poor, being outcast, being hungry, being scared, being desperate for identity, being broken, being… Read more “A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones”
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