We are pleased to share this review by Brian Trapp of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom (Dalkey Archive Press, 2000 edition), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). Nobody reads Stanley Elkin anymore. He’s too perverse, too ironic, too …
We are pleased to share this review by Sonja Livingston of Judith Kitchen’s The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). Twenty years ago I sat with a dying friend in his hospital room. …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: Exploring the intersection between nation and citizen is never an easy undertaking for an artist, and poet Lynne Potts braves the task with startling skill in “Family Photo of America” (in our most recent issue, mailed to subscribers just last week!). From the very beginning, via the piece’s title, she invites us …
We are pleased to share this review by Daniella Toosie-Watson of Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: Brian Ma’s nonfiction piece “Shadows on the Korean Peninsula” artfully engages difficult political material via evocation, juxtaposition, and figurative suggestion. Moving between a lyrical meditation on Moon Joon-yong’s art piece Augmented Shadow and fact-driven vignettes about Korean culture, past and present, Ma refuses to let us shield our eyes from the nuclear …
We are pleased to share this review by Yalie Saweda Kamara of Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2020), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows …
We are pleased to share the entire review feature from Issue 18.2 on joy, hope, and delight, including the following reviews: Sakinah Hofler on Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (Vintage, 1992 edition) Yalie Saweda Kamara on Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2020) Daniella Toosie-Watson on Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, …
We are pleased to share this review by Sakinah Hofler of Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (Vintage, 1992), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here): There’s a spectacular category of writers I like to call badasses. These writers …
It’s the first night I’ve slept over at Gerald’s. Yes, I am dating someone named Gerald. I asked if I could come up with a cooler name for him, something modern, geometric, all sharp angles and dangerous overtones—Axel, Gunner, Blaze—but he declined. Gerald’s cute in an awkward way, wears rectangular glasses and ties patterned with …
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