Review: Holy American Burnout! by Sean Enfield Reviewed by Anna Chotlos Split/Lip Press. 2023. 174 pages. Like essayists, teachers must also craft personas, transforming the unwieldly complexity of the self [...]
Review: Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech by Florian Gargaillo Reviewed by James Davis Louisiana State University Press. 2023. 198 pages. “What’s so bad about clichés?” [...]
Review: The Sorrows of Others by Ada Zhang Reviewed by Colleen Mayo A Public Space Books. 2023. 141 pages. To a peruser of titles, The Sorrows of Others might suggest [...]
Review: Out of Order by Alexis Sears Reviewed by James Davis Autumn House Press. 2022. 104 pages. The title page of Alexis Sears’s debut poetry collection, Out of Order, looks [...]
Review: Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere by Robert Lopez Reviewed by Vince Granata Two Dollar Radio. 2023. 280 pages. “Dispatch” suggests an expedited report, a concise official account from a far-flung [...]
Review: Trust by Hernan Diaz Reviewed by Josh Zimmerer Riverhead Books. 2022. 416 pages. Toward the end of Hernan Diaz’s new novel, Trust, Mildred Bevel—the recurrent dying wife of the [...]
Review: NDA: An Autofiction Anthology edited by Caitlin Forst Reviewed by J S Khan Archway Editions. 2022. 204 pages. Anthologies tend to be bulky, thanks—in large part—to their inclusion of [...]
Review: A Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande Reviewed by Vince Granata Atria Books. 2022. 370 pages. Reyna Grande’s A Ballad of Love and Glory offers a close [...]
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 Midnight Library by Matt Haig Viking. 2020. 288 pages. Reviewed by Brittany Glenn Most of us live with regrets about decisions we’ve made in our past. Looking back, [...]
In a Word: A Review of Patrick Madden’s Disparates: Essays University of Nebraska Press. 2020. 153 pages. Reviewed by Cicily Bennion If you asked me to describe Patrick Madden’s [...]
C + P Constant Stranger Music (ASCAP) 2022 Reviewed by Scott Ray In “Rosewater,” the first track on Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster’s third solo album, No Tongue Can Tell, dreamy [...]
