
An Interview with Min Liu
“Blood Diary”: An Interview with Min Liu K. Iver MIN LIU is a Taiwanese animation artist/illustrator and tattoo artist. She earned her BA in 2010 from National Taiwan University in Taipei and her MFA in Computer Art with a concentration in 2D animation and motion graphics from the School of Visual Arts, NYC in 2013. She focuses on hand-drawn animation and explores the possibility of traditional animation with fine art. Her style is unique with a dark sense of humor. K. Iver:


Book Review: Justin Phillip Reed
The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Devan Schnecker The Malevolent Volume is a text that inhabits several registers. It is at turns quiet, a murmuration of starlings sweeping through, until that murmur turns into a gasping, screaming maw. “Volume,” in this case, refers not just to the physical volume of the text, but also to sound and how sound creeps in at the edges of your perception until it unceremoniously breaks through. In The Malevolent Volume, Justin Phillip


Book Review: Elena Ferrante
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Keri Miller “Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many,” says Giovanna, protagonist of The Lying Life of Adults. Elena Ferrante’s latest novel explores a young girl’s discovery that adults are dishonest, manipulative, and hypocritical; however, the novel is written with brutal honesty, unabashed sincerity, and the straight-forward prose readers have come to trust in Ferrante’s novels. When she was twelve, Giovanna over


An Interview with Diane Seuss
An Interview with Diane Seuss Natalie Tombasco Photo: Gabrielle Montesanti Diane Seuss is the author of the poetry collections Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018); Four-Legged Girl (2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998). She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets curates a cinematic landscape “like cels on a filmstrip” of a