Melissa Broder is screwed up, and she’d like to tell you about it. In her new book So Sad Today, Broder vomits onto the page as much of… Read more “A Review of Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today”
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A Review of Galvanized: New and Selected Poems by Leland Kinsey
Galvanized, the new collection from Vermont poet Leland Kinsey, is a document of the hardship and rough-hewn beauty of living close to the land, in reach of… Read more “A Review of Galvanized: New and Selected Poems by Leland Kinsey”
A Review of The Woman Who Married a Bear by Tiffany Midge
The Woman Who Married a Bear by Tiffany Midge, a poet of mixed white and Lakota heritage who is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux… Read more “A Review of The Woman Who Married a Bear by Tiffany Midge”
A Review of Scruffians: Stories of Better Sodomites by Hal Duncan
Hal Duncan’s Scruffians: Stories of Better Sodomites is a collection of fantastical stories that are at points silly, grotesque, absurd, transgressive, poignant, and usually more than one of those things… Read more “A Review of Scruffians: Stories of Better Sodomites by Hal Duncan”
A Review of The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson
The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson (Vine Leave Press, 2015) is a thin collection full of sex and fire. These pieces are mostly poems, but… Read more “A Review of The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson”
A Review of Matthew Griffin’s Hide
Matthew Griffin’s debut novel Hide (Bloomsbury, 2016) is the story of a lifelong love that has carved out a shelter in the shadows of a cruel and intolerant… Read more “A Review of Matthew Griffin’s Hide”
A Review of Constellarium by Jordan Rice
Everyone longs for bad reasons most of their lives, and those of us who know it lie or shut up. – from Diana In her debut collection Constellarium… Read more “A Review of Constellarium by Jordan Rice”
A Review of Square Wave by Mark De Silva
Mark De Silva’s Square Wave (Two Dollar Radio, 2016) is an ambitious and wholly unique novel. The book feels hewn from the stuff of another literary age while… Read more “A Review of Square Wave by Mark De Silva”
A Review of Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys
Laura Horak’s new book Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2016) is an exhaustively researched and insightful look at gender norms and… Read more “A Review of Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys”
Dubliners by James Joyce
Until this month, I had never read anything by James Joyce. No Finnegan’s Wake, no Ulysses, no A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Deciding to rectify this… Read more “Dubliners by James Joyce”
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