Calling a Wolf a Wolf, by Kaveh Akbar Review by John Venegas It is a well worn cliche to ask where the time has gone. Our perception of time is a malleable reckoning of…
Cadavers, by Néstor Perlongher Translated by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman Review by Rosemarie Dombrowski Cardboard House Press has a reputation for both finely crafted books and exquisite translations from the Spanish, not to mention…
Abecedary, by Pablo Jofré Review by John Venegas Is it too much to describe the act of writing as paradoxical? So often the transcription of words to the page is painted as an effort…
What We Did While We Made More Guns, by Dorothy Barresi Review by John Venegas Is there anything more human than the search for meaning in the face of destruction? That reflexive need to…
I Love It Though by Alli Warren Review by T.m. Lawson Concern with humanity is thematic within I Love It Though, its tantalizing cover art of bright red paint and yarn knit intestines of…
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, by Morgan Parker Review by Michael Lorenzo Porter The orange Mussolini is running amok, nuclear war peers from around the corner, and rights once thought to be…
Hover the Bones, By Melisa Malvin-Middleton Review by Cody Deitz Melisa Malvin-Middleton’s debut collection Hover the Bones, an installment in the Native Blossoms Chapbook Series, explores terrains of family and loss, where nothing is…
Third-Millennium Heart, by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen Translated by Katrine Ogaard Jensen To put it simply and get right to it, Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen is one of the most human things I…
The World Goes On, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai Translated by John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet, and Georges Szirtes The animated science fiction comedy show Futurama has an episode in which the character Professor Hubert Farnsworth discovers the…
Djinn City, by Saad Z. Hossain Review by John Venegas When it comes right down to it, can anything be said to be more essential to the fantasy genre then trying to find one’s place…
Collection by Roger Santiváñez Translated by Elsa Costa Review by Vicent Moreno “I feel the materiality of language most intensely when writing poetry. It is a push/pull relationship where the material resists. You have a…
Novel by Chris Campanioni Review by Michael Browne Writer Chris Campanioni gives a crucial glimpse into our modern narcissism with his new book of memoir / non-fiction / hybrid text / does it really…