Reviews

REVIEW: Sophie Sleigh-Johnson’s CODE: DAMP

Jarett Kobek on British Folk Horror, British sitcoms, American Sitcoms, and Sleigh-Johnson's new book 'CODE: DAMP: An Esoteric Guide to British…

Jun 18 •

REVIEW: Tantrums in Air by Emily Skillings

Or, what the trope of the "dumb bitch" can teach us about poetics

Jun 11 •

REVIEW: Almost Mother: On Erica Stern's Frontier

Out now from Barrelhouse Books, Stern's debut is both a memoir and a ghost story.

Jun 9 •

REVIEW: Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith

The way life works, and this novella, too, is that the new information changes the future — the what happens next — but it also changes the past — the…

Jun 5 •

REVIEW: Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda

Still in the heart there are ants.

May 26 •

REVIEW: Wave of Blood by Ariana Reines

On the pain and poetry of living in wartime.

May 22 •

REVIEW: Beige Pursuit by Sara Magenheimer

Beige Pursuit (Wendy's Subway, 2019) asks the reader to consider, to want to know, to be devastated by all of it around us, everything that is…

May 13 •

REVIEW: The Running Flame by Fang Fang

A book from death row: The Running Flame was originally published in 2001, and has now finally been published in English.

Apr 30 •

REVIEW: Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson

Understanding why it physically hurts when you tell me to shut up.

Apr 17 •

REVIEW: Rising Up and Rising Down (Vol. I) by William T. Vollmann

On what a seven volume study of violence might do for (and to) us.

Apr 7 •

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