The FutureCatherine Leroux (Translated by Susan Ouriou)Biblioasis, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Catherine Leroux’s novel The Future (freshly translated by Susan Ouriou) presents a complex, layered story that probes how people navigate turbulent times, alone and together. She asks...
The BoulevardJerrod EdsonGalleon Books, 2023 Review by Steven Mayoff On a train trip through Hell’s outer reaches to find Vincent Van Gogh, the Devil tells Ernest Hemingway about when God banished him and his angelic cohort from the vibrant...
Light SpillLaura Mota-Juang Block Party, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Laura Mota-Juang’s imaginative debut chapbook, Light Spill, creates an electrifying atmosphere where abstract concepts and intimate longings alike materialize in startlingly luminous forms. These are poems committed to stretching...
HeldAnne MichaelsKnopf, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Anne Michaels’s third novel, Held, is a dizzying marvel of both lyric beauty and structural vision. Equal parts secretive and sincere, Michaels’s latest is ever probing, seeking, as it discovers intimacies that...
Once Upon An Effing TimeBuffy CramDouglas & McIntyre, 2023 Review by Roz Milner There’s a line about the 1960s that says if you can remember it, you weren’t really there. But with that decade more than a half-century in...
Fire Cider RainRhiannon Ng Cheng HinCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Kim Trainor In Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s Fire Cider Rain, an armature of scientific terminology undergirds imagery that is fluid, languid, and meandering, like gauze or drifts of...
This Time, That PlaceClark BlaiseBiblioasis, 2022 Review by Brandon Fick Who is Clark Blaise? Even some of the biggest literary aficionados may not be able to answer that question, yet This Time, That Place: Selected Stories goes a long...
Her Body Among AnimalsPaola FerranteBook*hug Press, 2023 Review by Deborah Vail “… Kitty was less afraid of the man attacking her than of the people attacking her for being whatshe was, a woman who worked in a bar coming...
The BrickworksLucy E.M. Black Now or Never Publishing, 2023 Review by Hollay Ghadery The challenge with writing historical fiction is not just taking the past and bringing it to life, but making it immediate. As immediate as the page in...