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Book Review: Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White, Book Review by Xanthippe Pack-Brown
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White by Xanthippe Pack-Brown There is more to the eye than bubbling creeks and stretching mountains in Twist Creek County, West Virginia. If you squint just right to get a good view of the skeletons of coal mines and rusted over railroad spikes, you find something far more sinister than black lung. Enter Miles Abernathy, a young transgender man going into his senior year of high school, which for most kids his age, is their biggest worry,
Oct 202 min read


Book Review: Tsunami, Women’s Voices from Mexico by Sophia Ziemer
Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico by Sophia Ziemer | edited by Gabriela Jauregui & Heather Cleary Navigating ways of knowing and forms...
Sep 225 min read


Book Review: When Fantasy & Reality Collide: A Review of Garrett Caples’ Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! by Olivia Brooks
When Fantasy & Reality Collide: A Review of Garrett Caples’ Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! by Olivia...
Jul 315 min read


Book Review: CHASING TRACES: A Review of Elizabeth Cooperman’s Woman Pissing by Sydney Wills
CHASING TRACES: A Review of Elizabeth Cooperman’s Woman Pissing by Sydney Wills Woman Pissing is a delightful paper trail, a gleam...
Jun 304 min read


Book Review: ‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé
‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé Nebeolisa, in this debut poetry...
Jun 36 min read


Book Review: ‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks
‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks...
May 26 min read


Book Review: The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
A Review of Tananarive Due's T he Wishing Pool and Other Stories By Ezekiel Greenwood For many readers, horror is at once an escape from...
Jan 244 min read


Book Review: It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know
Can You Imagine?: A Review of Chachi D. Hauser’s It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know Gabi Diaz Guerrero Whether explicitly invoked or...
Jun 20, 20243 min read


Book Review: If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
A Review of Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury. Caroline Hampshire Geraldine DeRuiter’s...
Apr 18, 20244 min read


Book Review: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
A Review of Camille T. Dungy’s Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden Ceren Sevin Gardens have long been the site and symbol of human...
Feb 9, 20244 min read


Book Review: What Napoleon Could Not Do
The American Dream Revisited: A Review of DK Nnuro’s What Napoleon Could Not Do William Haydon The fiction that is the “American Dream”...
Jan 19, 20244 min read


Book Review: Mustache in Plain Sight
Your New Best Friend: A Review of Mustache in Plain Sight by Michael Buckius Kyle Flak Mustache in Plain Sight by Michael Buckius (Tolsun...
Oct 13, 20233 min read


Book Review: Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility
Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility by Anna Laura Reeve Anthony Borruso As the gerund in its title suggests, Anna Laura Reeve’s...
Sep 22, 20235 min read


Book Review: A Spell of Good Things
A Spell of Good Things by Ayòbámi Adébáyò Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s second novel, A Spell of Good Things, published a...
Aug 1, 20234 min read


Book Review: Proximity
Standing Near Enough to Feel Its Warmth: A Review of Sam Heaps's Proximity Gabi Diaz Guerrero The old refrain that everything is about...
Jul 14, 20234 min read


Book Review: Paradise Close
Paradise Close by Lisa Russ Spaar Aimee Seu Paradise Close (Persea Press, 2022) is the debut novel by poet Lisa Russ Spaar, winner of a...
May 9, 20235 min read


Book Review: Grass Chapels
Grass Chapels by William Wright Ian Hall Equal parts earthen and fabular, William Wright’s Grass Chapels, his first edition of new and...
Mar 22, 20236 min read


Book Review: Through the Veil and Back
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home by Kerri ní Dochartairgh Gabi Diaz Guerrero Finding hope in senseless violence can be...
Feb 14, 20233 min read


Book Review: Dear Diaspora
Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen Li Zhuang After a wave of anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes during the pandemic, there comes a tide of...
Nov 15, 20224 min read


Book Review: Folklorn
Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur So Young Koo An interwoven quilt of myths, hallucinations, and personal tales, Angela Hur’s novel...
Sep 20, 20225 min read
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