The Farm Héctor Abad Translated by Anne McLean 2018 Archipelago 375 pages Review by Ivonne AyalaWith careful prose, we are submerged into the history of the Ángels’ family in Hector Abad’s most recent book The Farm translated from Spanish by Anne Mclean. Abad is one...
Unforgetting Private Charles Smith Jonathan Locke Hart 2019 Athabasca University Press 80 pages Review by Chengru HeI was teaching a first-year composition class, themed on Image, History, and Digital Archive, this spring. What is an archive? None of my students had...
Mostly Dead Things Kristen Arnett June 4, 2019 Tin House Books 366 pages Review by CHASE BURKEKristen Arnett, self-proclaimed “lesbian willie nelson” and “7-11 scholar™”, is Florida’s ideal literary ambassador. She’s never not writing about the state’s...
The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of MixtureBy Emanuele Coccia Translated by Dylan J. Montanari 2019Polity Press148 pages Review by Josh Dugat It is May in Alabama, and the ground is opening up. Just today, the first of the okra sprouted in the backyard. Last week...
Terrible Blooms by Melissa Stein Reviewed by Elise Lakey Terrible Blooms Melissa Stein 2018 Copper Canyon Press 96 pages Terrible Blooms, the second collection from Melissa Stein, serves as an elegy for the body’s redemption as it mourns what innocence must...
Song for the Unraveling of the World Brian Evenson 2019 Coffee House Press 240 Pages Review by Gregory Ariail Brian Evenson’s new story collection, Song for the Unravelling of the World, grafts an exciting new limb onto his corpus of weird horror. Vanishings,...
