Criticism

Review: The All-Purpose Magical Tent

By Lytton Smith.

Review: Star in the Eye

By James Shea.

Review: Sophie Robinson’s a

A poetry collection that feels both peculiarly allusive and particular.

Review: Stupid Hope

By Jason Shinder.

Smothered to Smithereens

The poetics of motherhood

Microreview: Roberto Bolaño, The Romantic Dogs

Re-imagining the poet as detective and philosopher in one. 

Review: Zero Readership

By Filip Marinovich.

Review: Days of Unwilling

By Cal Bedient.

Review: Skirmish

By Dobby Gibson.

Review: Word Comix

By Charlie Smith.

Fine By Me

Geoff Dyer’s unlikely terms of engagement.

Last Wishes

On Nabokov’s Novel in Fragments.

Review: Self-Portrait with Crayon

By Allison Benis White.

Desperately Seeking Sam

Remembering Beckett twenty years after his death.

World Tumbling Into World

Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary and This Nest, Swift Passerine.

Review: Chronic

By D.A. Powell.

A Distant Pleasure

New translations of C.P. Cavafy.

Review: The Ghost Soldiers

By James Tate.

Review: Pacific Shooter

By Susan Parr. 

Review: Sight Map

By Brian Teare.

Purely Coincidental

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Review: Body Clock

By Eleni Sikelianos.

Leap Into Light

Review: The Isle of the Signatories

By Marjorie Welish.

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