The Walled Wife, by Nicelle Davis Review by CLS Ferguson Magic by division of threes. emp / ti / ness— worth / less / ness— rooms must be filled with sac / ri / fice—…
The Wine-Dark Sea, by Mathias Svalina There is a lot we take for granted. This is not an indictment of anyone – in this age of information it is impossible for everything to stay…
Blind Spot, by Harold Abramowitz Review by Gretchelle Quiambao There are novels that challenge your notions of conventional writing and there are novels that make you reflect on your own memories of past regrets and…
Ford Over, by John Pluecker If you listen to media coverage, or the insensate fear-mongering demagogues that get the most media attention, immigration is described as, at best, something that requires ephemeral and nebulous…
Hardly War by Don Mee Choi Hardly War is Korean-American poet Don Mee Choi’s latest offering and is a work that is boundless in its formal scope and the traumatic history it details. The…
Here Lies Memory, by Doug Rice It doesn’t take long, when studying philosophy or the physical sciences, to be confronted with the subjectivity of reality. We take in the world, the universe, through our…
The Last Wolf, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai Herman, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai At the outset of this review, I must admit to a bias: I am predisposed in favor of audacity and the blending of chaos and symmetry. …
Poor Love Machine by Kim Hyesoon Kim Hyesoon has long been held in high regard as a master of Korean letters. Originally published in Seoul in 1997, Poor Love Machine was chosen for the…
On the Edge, by Rafael Chirbes Translated by Margaret Jull Costa It is perhaps easier to see the beauty in art when that art deals with a subject that is, for lack of a…
The Surrender, by Veronica Scott Esposito 2016 has been a year where many great novels, memoirs, and books of poetry regarding sexuality, identity, and the challenging of the gender binaries have been released. Authors…
Alien Weaving, by Will Alexander In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato writes about a man who has literally added an entire dimension to his thinking. The man’s eyes are opened to the world’s…
Radio: Wireless Poem in Thirteen Messages & Uncollected Poems by Kyn Taniya There is something to be said about the importance of translation in regards to literature. I would not have been able to experience…