Review: Valleyesque: Stories by Fernando A. Flores
Valleyesque: Stories by Fernando A. Flores MCD x FSG Originals. 2022. 210 pages. Reviewed by Colleen Mayo Two lines from Fernando A. Flores’ 2022 short story collection Valleyesque zapped [...]
The New Nudity
Saturnalia Books. 2017. 80 pages. Reviewed by Brian Clifton Hadara Bar-Nadav begins her latest book, The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017), with the line “Who means what it is to be human.” [...]
Jane Rose Porter
Jane Rose Porter The Night Vera Robinov Got Shot 1. Everyone heard the gunshots on the lake the night Vera Robinov went walking. She should have known better than to [...]
Raina K. Puels
Raina K. Puels Bruised I first encountered Nan Goldin’s photography at a sleep-away art camp the summer after my junior year of high school. In an air-conditioned and windowless computer [...]
Diane Mehta
Diane Mehta Dip Your Hand In Wandering around in cemeteries forces you to wrestle with all the possibilities your life has left to offer. When you’re middle aged, and closer [...]
C. Wade Bentley
C. Wade Bentley Glaucoma It starts small. First, maybe you fail to notice the blue azalea bush that has been remarkable on the last corner of your evening walk for [...]
Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust Little Brown Bat 1. That you must fall to fly. That you can live two decades or more. That you have [...]
Steven Kleinman
Steven Kleinman Bear I guess the problem with the bear was he wouldn’t die. It started Tuesday of last week. We brought him to the town square, rope tied tight [...]
George Kovalenko
George Kovalenko Spooky Action at a Distance Somehow it seems like almost every night now most everyone disappears someplace: Portland or Hanoi or the dark side of Uranus. And it [...]
Stefan Lovasik
Stefan Lovasik River Moving up river to Phnom Ke, bones hang from trees; bodies float in a ring of yellow and green. I hear children. The disemboweled lie in twisted [...]
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Ricardo Pau-Llosa Flâneur Caught in curiosity’s web, he dandies mildly in the cafés and boulevards of the nineteenth century. Like a learnèd finger skimming the pages of the city, he [...]
Allan Peterson
Allan Peterson Seeing the Yazoo Once the dead were just across a river I recalled that seeing the Yazoo No boatman upstream but a winch and a rusted platform to [...]