Near the conclusion of Fiona Maazel’s present-day tragicomedy, A Little More Human (Graywolf, April 2017), our hero Phil Synder returns to a toy store where...
Review – Let us Live Fully: On Caits Meissner’s Let It Die Hungry by Jahan Mantin
The title of Caits Meissner’s second book of poetry, Let It Die Hungry, conjures up images of a mother’s wizened breast, taunting the open mouth of her...
Henri Lipton’s Burning Man and Wife: a review of Emily Witt’s Future Sex
“Burning Man and Wife”: Emily Witt’s Future Sex By Henri Lipton We are at a point in our culture where it is commonplace to peruse...
Review: Charlie Murphy
by Yvonne Kendall No more Mr. Sidekick, Charlie Murphy killed.
Review: Alexandra Kleeman’s Experiential Fiction
Kleeman has artfully provided her reader with a book that, unlike many contemporary novels, relies on the reader as an active ingredient.
Review: Mirror, Mirror: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
Ferrante has demythologized female friendship, yielding a rubble of unflattering dialectics: envy and admiration, selfishness and generosity, a narcissism realized in the mirror of the...
Review: A Tepid Tempest
It is downright unpatriotic to be a New Yorker and walk out on a performance at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater in the middle of a...
Review: Seeking Its Own Level: An Anthology of Writings About Water
What you get immediately after reading Seeking Its Own Level is a reminder that water has, does, and will always have a hold over us...
Review: Bob Ziering
by Carla Stockton In the new art, he is able to explore his emotions – universal human emotions – by telling visual tales, which he...
Review: The Best American Essays 2013
by Jaime R. Herndon As in every anthology, some essays warranted more than one read, while others were skipped, and then read when the rest...
Review: Mañana Means Heaven by Tim Z. Hernandez
by Gina Lujan Boubion In October 1947, Jack Kerouac met a pretty, young Mexican woman named Bea Franco on a bus going from Bakersfield to...
Review: What We’ve Lost is Nothing by Rachel Louise Snyder
by Carla Stockton Anyone who’s ever been held up in any way will tell you that in the aftermath, such a transgression is alarmingly unnerving;...