Reviews

In her debut novel, Jackal, Erin E. Adams begs readers to look at the horrors lurking behind the smiles of the residents of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and the terrors hiding just […]

The subtitle of Peach Pit makes it clear what this fiction anthology promises: an array of portrayals of “unsavory” women who misbehave, who refuse to fit into the neat tropes […]

Stephanie Burt’s sixth poetry collection, We Are Mermaids, touches on the surface of things and slips below into the saltiest depths and touches there too. Poems discuss the ways letters touch each […]

               “I’m not famous now. But just wait until I’m dead!”                            […]

In Mikhail Bulgakov’s unfinished satire Black Snow, translated into English by Michael Glenny in 2005, a harried writer has the misfortune of having one of his novels picked up by […]

Gina Chung’s debut novel, Sea Change, intimately follows first-person narrator Ro, who is stricken by grief. Ro works an entry-level job at an aquarium, despite freshly entering her thirties. She […]

From an initial diagnosis of depression at nineteen, to the eventual diagnoses of multiple mental and physical illnesses in the two decades that followed, Jen Soriano has lived a lifetime […]

In the opening poem of Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph describes “the vehicle still leagues away from rescue.” She is telling us the story of her own traumatic brain […]

There was a time when I hated the South and my white roots. That is, I felt ashamed of myself and my people. After moving away and returning, I now […]

A. E. Stallings is celebrated as a poet of wit and wisdom. Her subjects are beauty and calamity, the acute present and the ancient past. Her poems are often unshakeable, […]