Interview by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Peter Midgley’s latest collection, let us not think of them as barbarians (NeWest Press, 2019), is a “sensual and intimate” exploration and reconfiguration of Namibia’s history, philosophy, and relationship to the present. It was...
Written by Jaminnia R. States “Meditations on My Face” was the first runner-up in PRISM’s 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Alexander Chee. To read the other winning essays, pick up a copy of Issue 59.2 from our online...
Photo Credit: Una RoulstonReview by A.N. Higgins Emma Donoghue is the author of eleven novels for adults––including Room, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize––two novels for children, and five short story collections, as well as various plays, screenplays,...
DREAM FRAGMENTS (Cactus Press, 2020)Mirabel Review by Meggie Royer Mirabel’s DREAM FRAGMENTS reads like one extended descent into sleep––slipping through shadowy corridors and mirrors, grasping for something that may or may not be there. Throughout her pages, the reader...
Less Sweet Than Chocolate or Concrete by Aimee LouwFrog Hollow Press, 2020 Review by Neil Surkan “Crip Poetics is my thesis title / I don’t really know what poetics means.” So ends the penultimate poem in Aimee Louw’s new...
Photo by Aaron VandenbrinkInterview by Natasha Ramoutar Emma Hansen’s debut memoir Still ebbs and flows around the reader, much like its recurring motif of water. At times, it brims with heartbreak; at other times, it is tender and overflowing...
In the Vicinity of RichesChris Hutchinsonicehouse poetry, 2020 Review by Mark Grenon The title of Chris Hutchinson’s fourth book of poetry, In the Vicinity of Riches, suggests that, though the riches of late capitalism may seem to be within...
Divine AnimalBrandon WintWrite Bloody North, 2020 Review by Erin Kirsh Brandon Wint’s inaugural collection, Divine Animal from Write Bloody North, can be described in four words: heavy impact, gentle touch. I first heard Brandon Wint perform poetry at a...
Death in her HandsOttessa MoshfeghPenguin Press, 2020 Review by Alexandra Trnka Ottessa Moshfegh’s fictions are an exercise in relating to obscenity. Her oeuvre is united by her intentionally unlikeable characters, leading to the popular classification of her work as...