Stealing History: Essays by Gerald Stern W. M. Lobko Gerald Stern on the former U.S. general Stanley McChrystal: “…he was and is...

Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal W. M. Lobko Paisley Rekdal opens her fourth book of poetry with the following salvo: “And then I thought,...

Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race by Harriet Pollack Patrick Osborne Over the last few decades, literary critics have struggled to...

The Youngest Butcher in Illinois by Robert Ostrom Jeffrey Allen There is much out there that implies an expansive existence, a belief...

The Man Who Noticed Everything by Adrian Van Young Keith McCleary “Hard Water,” the opening story in Adrian Van Young’s debut collection,...

Kings of the F**king Sea, Poetry by Dan Boehl, Art by Jonathan Marshall David Moody On a shelf, Kings of the F**king Sea by Dan Boehl...

Nostalgia for the Criminal Past by Kathleen Winter April Manteris From the opening, title poem in her debut collection, Nostalgia for the...

Windeye by Brian Evenson Micah Dean Hicks Brian Evenson’s latest collection, Windeye, is a book that will ruin you. Between stories,...

Madame X by Darcie Dennigan Anna Claire Hodge Darcie Dennigan’s poems are all over the place, or rather, all over the page. In just...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Paul Haney Cheryl Strayed’s new memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on...

None of This Is Real by Miranda Mellis Micah Dean Hicks None of This is Real by Miranda Mellis is not fiction as usual. This is fiction...

Between the Crackups by Rebecca Lehmann Claire Nelson Rebecca Lehmann suffers fools; she suffers love and tradition, suffers childhood,...

Partyknife by Dan Magers Russel Swensen I tried to sneak PARTYKNIFE into a movie I had it in my bag but it was too loud, they made me...

Syzygy, Beauty by T. Fleischmann Christine Martorana Early in T. Fleischmann’s text Szygy, Beauty, the speaker expresses that “By...

Either Way I’m Celebrating by Sommer Browning John Beardsley In reading Either Way I’m Celebrating, Sommer Browning’s first full...

If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter Jacob Newberry The fourteen chronologically (and thematically) linked essays in Ryan...