by Peter B. Hyland | Jul 18, 2013
You could say Dobby Gibson knows how to turn a phrase. He also knows how to vivisect a phrase; make it erupt, flex, heel, or soothe; or force it to devour itself at a moment of his choosing. If you consider Gibson’s writing more panoramically, phrase is...
by Kay Cosgrove | Jul 10, 2013
I came to wailing last night and now am certain that what I thought was shallow water rushing over stones, the current embracing my...
by Kay Cosgrove | Jun 18, 2013
Divided into three parts, or ‘lives’ (the afterlife, the other life, and the inner life), Gaze reads as one poet’s quest to recover a lost idea of home. Through color-soaked memories of childhood filled with characters we come to recognize (a...
by Marcus Pactor | Jun 10, 2013
In this collection, a woman builds a city of desert sand, another grows a tail, a third destroys her home over the course of many days, and a couple in the near future is quarantined in the midst of a plague. In this promising, but inconsistent, collection, Rollins...
by Tara Menon | Jun 1, 2013
Last year, Nell Freudenberger, hailed by Granta as one of the Best Young American novelists and distinguished by the New Yorker as one of the “20 under 40,” released the novel The Newlyweds. Her previous two books were New York Times Book...
by Kay Cosgrove | May 24, 2013
Our worried faces fall through my memory like confetti: who would inherit...
