REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
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Three Ways: K-Ming Chang's Cecilia
"We must bring in the source material of our own lives... That’s one of the most compelling things about Cecilia, to me. There are all these things that have to do with race, class, sexuality, gender – all these are felt, while the structures are buried beneath."
Review by Sophia Chong & Siobhan Hart
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Genre Bathing: A Review of Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
Review by Erin McAllester
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A Readerly Experience of Violence: A Review of Bullet Points: A Lyric by Jennifer A Sutherland
Review by J.D. Ho
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Between the Cracks: Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries
Review by Hannah Jansen
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Silly Words and Lucky Glaciers: On Margaret Yapp’s Green for Luck
Interview by Ian Carstens
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Workshopping the Narrative: An Interview with Andromeda Romano-Lax on The Deepest Lake
An atmospheric thriller, unflinchingly gorgeous tale of intersections and cross-sections of jealousies, secrets, fear, grief, and more.
Review by Leslie Lindsay
12 June 2024
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Evie Day at the Writers House: A review of Evie Shockley's suddenly we
Review by Aiden Hunt
10 May 2024
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In Telluria, A Russia Divided: A review of Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
Review by John Arterbury
8 March 2024
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Letting Hybridity Happen: An Interview with Kimberly Grey on A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
Interview by Crystal Cox
26 February 2024
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The Work of Mourning: A Review of In the Tempered Dark edited by Lisa Fay Coutley
“Within this crucible of grief, the spirits of the dead appear paradoxically within the very words that claim they have vanished.”
Review by Judith Harris
3 February 2024
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Dreams from a Digital Dystopia: A Review of Earth Angel by Madeline Cash
“It’s like a balloon inflated with shocking humor and nonchalant horror.”
Review by Alex Romero
4 November 2023
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Biomedical Transition Comes to Dinner: A Review of [sarah] Cavar’s Bug Butter
“As multitudinous as gender itself are the means for reckoning with feeling like an embodied paradox — woman and/or man, full and/or empty, alive and/or dead.”
Review by Crystal Odelle
1 November 2023
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A Polyphonic Place to Rest: Interview with Amanda Maret Scharf, 2022 Poetry Contest Winner
“And so there’s always been some degree of reaching toward, or I almost imagine some limb that extends across countries.”
Interview by Crystal Cox
2023
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Narrative Slippage and Alternatives to Breath: An Interview with Philip James Shaw, 2022 Prose Contest Winner
“Then in February of 2021, the paintings stopped. I couldn’t do any more. I have ideas and sketches for dozens more, but I couldn’t get myself to sit and paint them. That’s when I began writing to them.”
Interview by Crystal Cox
2023
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How to Write a Wolf: An Interview with Erica Berry on Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell about Fear
Interview by North Bennett
2023
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The Line — A Lattice Of Spirits: Maroon Choreography by fahima ife
Review by Cameron Lovejoy
2023
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Our Future Past: Queer Temporality in the Poetics of Ari Banias, TC Tolbert and Jos Charles
Review by Nico Amador
2023
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Masters of Loss: Embodiment, Death, and Temporality in Poems by Katie Farris, Max Ritvo, Emily Dickinson
Review by Diana Jones-Ellis
2023
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Mourning Road Selves in Caylin Capra-Thomas’s Iguana Iguana
Review by Daniel Lurie
2022
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Persistence Against the World Which Insists that Your Brain is Scrambled Eggs: On Olivia Muenz’s Where Was I Again
Review by Min Kang
2022
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Review: psalmbook by Laura Walker
Review by Valerie Witte
2022
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Ravisher or Abductor Beneath the Stars: On Paul Cunningham’s Fall Garment
Review by Christopher Higgs
2022
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Perception, Obsessions, Queer Excess: An Interview with Jenny Johnson
Interview by Gianna Stoddard
2022
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Questions, Diamonds, Artifice: An Interview With Camille Guthrie
Interview by Joely Fitch
2021
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An Interview with Linda Gray Sexton
Interview by Fugue
2018
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An Interview with Issue 52 Cover Artist, Laura Berger
Interview by Fugue
2017