Post-Modern Hijinx
reviewed by Richard Holinger
Issue No. 170 ~ July, 2011
Sloth. Mark Goldblatt. Greenpoint Press, 2010. $16.00. 173 pp.
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Quick Fall of Light
reviewed by Jeremy O'Brine
Issue No. 164 ~ January, 2011
From asteroids and comets with ‘Earth or Bust’ tattooed on their underbellies, to stories of super volcanoes and earthquake storms, the Grand Narrative of our end always seems to draw
Citrus County
reviewed by Miriam Roth
Issue No. 163 ~ December, 2010
Described by one critic as “Southern Gothic goes to middle school,” Citrus County, like its Gulf Coast namesake, feels both alien and alarmingly familiar. Brandon, who grew up just
First, Do No Harm
reviewed by Adrienne Friedberg
Issue No. 162 ~ November, 2010
Knife Music, the title of David Carnoy’s debut novel, refers to the soundtrack surgeons choose to accompany their own performance in the operating room. This medical thriller opens like a scene from one of the better episodes of ER.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS…Card Game
reviewed by Richard Holinger
Issue No. 161 ~ October, 2010
“Look! Up on the shelf!” “It’s a game!” “It’s a Ouija board!” “No, it’s a poetry chapbook!”
Sh*t My Dad Says
reviewed by Richard Luck
Issue No. 159 ~ August, 2010
What followed is nothing short of publishing history, as Halpern went from zero Twitter followers to a book deal with HarperCollins in less than two months. But that’s a topic for another story...
Hints and Allegations: poems by Amanda J. Bradley
reviewed by Richard Holinger
Issue No. 159 ~ August, 2010
Hints and Allegations, Poems by Amanda J. Bradley. NYQ Books. New York, 2009. 74 pages. $14.95. The feisty and assertive nature of the unnamed protagonist in many of Amanda J. Bradley’s poems is as compelling and well-defined as a novelist’s. The apparently autobiographical rendering of …
2666
reviewed by Ryan Gleason
Issue No. 158 ~ July, 2010
Roberto Bolaño’s final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. It’s the kind of work that possesses a staggering amount of angles, gliding through time periods, characters, both widespread and intimate violence, sexuality, and Bolaño’s expertise, the imagining and dismantling of artists.
In the Company of Angels: A Novel
reviewed by Liam Mac Sheoinin
Issue No. 155 ~ April, 2010
Thomas E. Kennedy’s In the Company of Angels : A Novel is an elegy to the human heart. It begins on the couch of a Copenhagen psychiatrist treating a Chilean torture victim, Bernardo Greene.
Reconsidering Thomas Williams
reviewed by John McIntyre
Issue No. 155 ~ April, 2010
The Hair of Harold Roux is a densely layered novel, but despite the metafictional elements in play, Irving’s characterization of Williams as “a wonderfully old-fashioned writer…that dinosaur among contemporary writers of fiction, an actual storyteller,” is sound. These qualities are in fact the foundation of my regard for Thomas Williams.