by Jon Frankel | Mar 23, 2022
RUIN by Cara HoffmanPMP Press, 2022. “And I was silent, ecstatic in the cradle of real things.”—Retouch/Switch I met Cara Hoffman in 1999 when we were featured...
by Marcus Pactor | Jun 26, 2017
All Back Full by Robert Lopez Dzanc books. 2017. Robert Lopez’s All Back Full is the most nihilistic book I’ve read in years. It is a remarkable achievement, especially if one measures an artistic achievement by its completeness of vision and demonstration of...
by Natalie Mesnard | May 9, 2017
Pull Me Under By Kelly Luce FSG. 2016. Back when I taught English in Japan, the worst thing that happened to me was being denied entrance to a few restaurants. Kelly Luce, author of Pull Me Under (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), wasn’t so lucky. In this New York...
by Natalie Mesnard | Dec 29, 2016
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone By Sequoia Nagamatsu Black Lawrence Press. 2016. I don’t often lead off reviews by discussing a book’s cover. But I’m going to do just that with Sequoia Nagamatsu’s book of short fiction, Where We Go When All We Were Is...
by Natalia Holtzman | Nov 8, 2016
The Loss of All Lost Things by Amina Gautier Elixir Press. 2015. Maybe there is no hierarchy of suffering, no hierarchy of loss. Then again, of course there is. In “Lost and Found,” the first story in Amina Gautier’s lovely collection, The Loss of All Lost Things, a...
by Natalie Mesnard | Aug 20, 2016
Desolation of Avenues Untold by Brandon Hobson Civil Coping Mechanisms. 2015. I’m probably not the intended audience for Desolation of Avenues Untold, by Brandon Hobson, though my experience of reading the book was singular. It’s a decidedly unusual work of fiction, a...
