Grackles: Queen and Slim
Grackles review Queen and Slim Directed by Melina Matsuokas Reviewed by Scott Ray and Charlie Riccardelli In Queen & Slim, Melina Matsuokas makes her feature film debut following the [...]
Grackles: The Irishman
Grackles review The Irishman Directed by Martin Scorsese Reviewed by Scott Ray and Charlie Riccardelli In The Irishman, legendary director Martin Scorsese returns to the world of gangsterism that [...]
Review: Cyborg Detective by Jillian Weise
BOA Editions, 2019. 112 pages. Reviewed by Brian Clifton About a third of the way into Jillian Weise’s latest book of poems, Cyborg Detective, one of her speakers asks, [...]
Grackles: Jojo Rabbit
American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.
Grackles: The Lighthouse
American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film. Grackles review The Lighthouse Directed by Robert Eggers Reviewed by Scott Ray and Charlie Riccardelli The [...]
Review: dark / / thing: poems by Ashley M. Jones
Pleiades Press. 2019. 80 pages. Reviewed by Megan J. Arlett In selecting Ashley M. Jones’ book for the 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize in Poetry, Marcus Wicker said, “dark [...]
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.” [...]
Review: Sweet and Low: Stories by Nick White
Blue Rider Press. 2018. 289 pages. Reviewed by Scott Ray Time after time in Nick White’s second book, Sweet and Low, characters confront dilemmas they “haven’t yet found a [...]
Review: Valleyspeak by Cait Weiss Orcut
Zone3 Press. 2017. 64 pages. Reviewed by Megan J. Arlett If Netflix were to recommend Valleyspeak to you, it would be because you’ve watched more true crime documentaries than you [...]
David Keplinger – The Most Natural Thing (Reviewed by Jenny Molberg)
New Issues Poetry and Prose. 2013. 90 pages. Reviewed by Jenny Molberg We remember well what Auden wrote in his elegy to Yeats: that “poetry makes nothing happen.” What many [...]
Clinton Crockett Peters – Review – The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
Picador. 2013. 352 pages. Reviewed by Clinton Crockett Peters When I learn about a book that's about, “artists who were depressed” or “writers who killed themselves” or “politicians who [...]
Clarence Major – Down and Up – Reviewed by Trista Edwards
University of Georgia Press. 2013. 59 pages. Reviewed by Trista Edwards Veteran painter, novelist, and poet Clarence Major’s thirteenth collection of poems, Down and Up, constructs a visual world of [...]