LATEST REVIEWS
An Existential Thriller With Lots of Breast Milk
Jason DeYoung reviews Helen Phillips’ The Need (more…)
The Wildness Within
Liam Bishop reviews Alvydas Šlepikas’ In the Shadow of Wolves (trans. Romas Kinka) (more…)
“Smiling Like a Person Sunbathing”
Katie Da Cunha Lewin reviews Sylvie Weil’s Selfies. (more…)
The Side Dishes, Part 2
Jason DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such. (more…)
The Side Dishes, Part 1
Jason DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s The Dry Heart. (more…)
I Didn’t Want to Talk About Literature Before Having Sex
Jason DeYoung reviews Lina Wolff’s The Polyglot Lovers. (more…)
Satire, Opening Onto Sincerity
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Jonathan Gibbs’ The Large Door. (more…)
Orbits, Intersecting
MacKenzie Warren reviews Ruby Cowling’s This Paradise and Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Animalia Paradoxa. (more…)
What We Are Not
Mia Spence reviews Olivia Rosenthal’s To Leave with the Reindeer. (more…)
Echolocation in the Archive
Anna MacDonald reviews Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive. (more…)
“Our Smiles Are Grimaces”
Daniel Green reviews David Hayden’s Darker With the Lights On. (more…)
The Universe at Human Scale
MacKenzie Warren reviews Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Lab. (more…)
Away From Understanding
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This? (more…)
Extravagantly Articulate
David Hebblethwaite reviews Marc Nash’s Three Dreams in the Key of G. (more…)
How Did We Get Here?
MacKenzie Warren reviews Tony White’s The Fountain in the Forest. (more…)
Of Mingling and Middles
Jason DeYoung reviews Mathias Énard’s Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants. (more…)
A Challenge of Empathy
David Hebblethwaite reviews Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman. (more…)
Folkloric Flashes
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Helen McClory’s On the Edges of Vision and Mayhem & Death. (more…)
Serious Eccentricity
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. (more…)
Writing the Riots, Part 1
MacKenzie Warren reviews Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s The Tyranny of Lost Things. (more…)
Song of the Muck
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole. (more…)52.486243-1.890401
On Crackedness
Xenobe Purvis reviews Clare Fisher’s How the Light Gets In. (more…)52.486243-1.890401
In Search of Lost Time
Joseph Schreiber reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Tidings of the Trees. (more…)52.486243-1.890401
What Are Poets For If They Can’t Help Us Live?
Alec Dewar reviews Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s About the Size of the Universe. (more…)
Reflections on Relative Privilege
Daniel Davis Wood reviews John Edgar Wideman’s American Histories. (more…)
Reading as a Form of Exploration
Thea Hawlin reviews Alicia Kopf’s Brother in Ice. (more…)
Alejandro’s Adventures in Reading
Jason DeYoung reviews Alejandro Zambra’s Not to Read. (more…)
Slightly Rearranged, But Always the Same
Anna MacDonald reviews Elizabeth Tan’s Rubik. (more…)
The Purity of Potential
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Gerald Murnane’s Collected Short Fiction. (more…)
Farewell to the Visible World
Tristan Foster reviews Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts. (more…)
Unhip
Daniel Davis Wood considers ways of reading the essays of Marilynne Robinson. (more…)
Awe and Wonder, Disdain and Despair
Jack Hanson reviews Marilynne Robinson’s What Are We Doing Here? (more…)
LATEST INTERVIEWS
Greg Gerke (1 of 2)
Greg Gerke discusses the art of short fiction and the aural approach to writing literature. (more…)
Thomas Chadwick (1 of 2)
Thomas Chadwick discusses his writing process and inspirations, and the art of the short story. (more…)
Michael Conley (1 of 2)
Michael Conley discusses his story collection Flare and Falter. (more…)
Isabel Fargo Cole
Isabel Fargo Cole discusses translating Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Tidings of the Trees. (more…)
Megan McDowell
Megan McDowell discusses translating Alejandro Zambra’s Not to Read. (more…)
Brian FitzGibbon
Brian FitzGibbon discusses translating Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir’s Hotel Silence. (more…)
Cherilyn Elston
Cherilyn Elston discusses translating Jorge Consiglio’s Southerly. (more…)
LATEST FICTION & EXCERPTS
Mother
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Or So
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Bach, a Beard, Two Women
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Issues
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Careful
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Politics
Exclusive new fiction by Thomas Chadwick. (more…)
Birch
An excerpt from Thomas Chadwick’s Above the Fat (more…)
Above the Fat
An excerpt from Thomas Chadwick’s Above the Fat. (more…)
A New Face
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
Sister Luz
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Negritas
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Mother
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Village Where Everyone Keeps Punching Themselves in the Mouth
Exclusive new fiction by Michael Conley. (more…)
Pinniped
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
The God Quetzalcoatl Has Retired and Now Runs a Pub in South Manchester
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Krill Rations
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
When It Starts
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Marked
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Anatidaephobia
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
The Sanctuary
Exclusive new fiction by Dana Diehl. (more…)
Account For Who You Say You Are
An excerpt from Jesse Ball’s Census. (more…)
In Touch With the Deep Sources of Fiction
An excerpt from Gerald Murnane’s Collected Short Fiction. (more…)
Emptying My Mind
An excerpt from Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts. (more…)
To Date a Time Traveler
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
Swallowed
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
We Know More
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
My mother appeared to be in command of herself…
An excerpt from Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Saudade. (more…)
Alice and Amar
Excerpts (elsewhere) from Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry. (more…)
Mortuary
An excerpt from Brian Dillon’s In the Dark Room. (more…)