If you enjoy not-so-simple tales of mythical beings and talking animals, deadly dominant wizards and cheese-gobbling goblins, rapier-wielding rodents and long-slumbering monstrosities, Benjamin Wachs’ latest…
Benjamin Hollander reviews Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (The University of Alabama Press), edited by Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller.
I recently spoke with Voice of Witness executive editor mimi lok and Palestine Speaks editors Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke to do a short profile for The San Francisco…
A piecemeal narrative composed of twenty-nine poems, Alexandra Naughton’s book, I Will Always Be Your Whore: Love Songs for Billy Corgan, is a poetry of…
A collection of nineteen true stories by Dani Burlison, which first appeared in a McSweeney’s column of the same title, Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos renders…
Teju Cole, Twitter virtuoso and author of the critically acclaimed novel Open City, has written a novella that will be published by Random House on March…
Bossy and controlling women are not hard to find in this country, but I avoid them if I can. One reason my father moved to…
The opening passage of Daniel Alarcón’s new novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, describes a time – “during the war” – when a few…
For most of 2012, I carried Karen Tei Yamashita‘s I Hotel everywhere I went. It went in my suitcase as I traveled through France, it…
Earlier this year, City Lights Booksellers and Publishers released Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore‘s new memoir, The End of San Francisco, to much critical acclaim. Here is…
The wife was out of town and I was all set to watch “Reservoir Dogs”, which I have never seen and which she won’t go…
“We live and love and die accompanied by grasses.” The above is a quote by Brian Teare from an interview with Rusty Morrison, on the…
Bob Coffen is having a tough time. So much so, he might as well be living in his own last name. He doesn’t get much…
The Bellwether Revivals is not about music, or murder, or even love, though all three are present: the music a repeating grace note trill, the…
I am nearing the completion of a non-fiction book, and have been trying to decide whether to once again look for an agent, or to…
When I first came to the US from the UK, where I grew up, in 1966, I was shocked that so many Americans still approved…
Sound is more of an experience than a story. It looks at moments in Cincy’s life multidimensionally, like a song. “Sound,” by T.M. Wolf, is the…
First, this, from James Merrill‘s great poem “The Thousand and Second Night:” “Form’s what affirms.” If Merrill is right, then Alice Jones‘ Plunge (Apogee) is superlatively…
Edward Smallfield’s Equinox (Apogee, 89 pages) is a truly fascinating collection of poems that weaves together a traditional form with a highly conceptual process. That…
i am a movie monster and i love you so much i know your fears and will not capitalize on them She might be a…
Jan Steckel’s The Horizontal Poet is an award-winning collection of poems published by Zeitgeist Press with cover art by Deborah Vinograd. The cover of The Horizontal…
The most important thing to tell you about reading Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story (D. T. Max, Viking) is that every few pages…
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry…
The Bee-Loud Glade is an invitation into the mind of a man, Mr. Finch, hired as a paid hermit. He is rescued from his post-firing…
