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…
