Editor Thomas Mar Wee reviews Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts. In the opening pages of Fake Accounts, the recent debut novel by Lauren Oyler, who is…
Like a tune you just can’t shake: Larissa Pham’s Pop Song
Editor Sofia Montrone reviews Larissa Pham’s Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy In the silence, in the dark, Larissa Pham hears something shift. First…
Starving and Sated
Editor (now alumna) Maddie Woda reviews Jihyun Yun’s first collection, Some Are Always Hungry. In 2016, I stumbled upon Jihyun Yun’s poem “Recipe: Dak-dori-tang” in…
Review: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
Spencer Grayson reviews Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife. Julia Alvarez’s new novel begins with verse, not prose, in a prologue titled “Broken English.” Her narrator Antonia Vega…
Everything is Personal, This is Personal Too
Editor Emmi Mack reviews Laurie Stone’s latest collection, Everything is Personal: Notes on Now. In her latest collection of hybrid nonfiction, Everything is Personal: Notes…
Finding What is Lost in C. J. Tudor’s The Other People
The Other People / C J Tudor / Ballantine, 01/20 – $27 (Hardcover) There is something relentlessly engrossing about a mystery. The suspense, the shock,…
Arcana, Alive: Anne Serre’s The Fool
The Fool and Other Moral Tales / Anne Serre, trans. by Mark Hutchinson / New Directions, 09/19 – $15 (Paperback) Repulsive, violent, confounding: that’s how…
Mystery At the Edge of the World: A Review of Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth
Disappearing Earth / Julia Phillips / Knopf, 05/2019 – $27 (Hardcover) “In Kamchatka,” Julia Phillips told the Paris Review, “you can slip between the cracks…
A Phoenix from the Ashes: Myth and Memorial in Sara Stridsberg’s Valerie
Valerie, or The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel / Sara Stridsberg, trans. by Deborah Bragan-Turner / FSG, 08/2019 – $27 (Hardcover) Valerie Solanas’s Wikipedia page…
Babel Unbuilt: Alan Shapiro’s Against Translation
“Beginning with the fall of towers and ending with the emergence of a new voice, the mastery of Against Translation is clear…”