Book REVIEW
October 03, 2024
Fuel for Love
by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
A review by James Berger
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright’s new book–the latest of many: Fuel for Love. Everyone knows Jeff Wright–as editor-publisher-curator-impressario and poet. Go to any reading in New York south of 14th St or in Brooklyn and Jeff either has organized it, is reading in it, or just has showed up because he’s a friend of the readers... read more >
BOOK REVIEW
December 14, 2023
Non Fiction
Tracks and Shadows Field Biology As Art
by Harry W. Greene
Review by Jerrod G. Tynes
The text, Tracks and Shadows Field Biology As Art, is an expressive autobiography that discusses the process of how the author (Harry W. Greene) came to be a field biologist, studying of all things, snakes... read more >
BOOK REVIEW
November 17, 2022
POETRY
Hush
by Nikki Ummel
Review by Justin Lacour
There is a rare intimacy to the poems in Nikki Ummel’s chapbook, Hush. The poet takes the reader into some of the most vulnerable spaces possible, beginning with a double mastectomy and ending with the speaker’s first sexual experience... read more >
BOOK REVIEW
October 20, 2022
POETRY
EROTIC: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
BY ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER
Review by Landon Porter
and John Brantingham
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s poetry often explores how our sexuality is not just an expression of who we are and how we see ourselves but is a primal force that pushes us to the truths of our deepest selves and our relationship to others around us... read more >
BOOK REVIEW
April 14, 2022
Thriller
Chasing Homer
by László Krasznahorkai
Review by Landon Porter
Near the midpoint of László Krasznahorkai’s novella Chasing Homer, the unnamed narrator makes an assertion that broadly conveys the generative impulse behind the work’s circuitous, monological, and disconcertingly gripping style... read more >
Art REVIEW
April 03, 2021
Transcending Passages
Maisoon Al Saleh
March 16th - April 6th, 2021
Agora Gallery
Review by Heather Zises
Interdisciplinary Emirati artist Maisoon Al Saleh creates images and objects that serve as diagrams of personal experience, contemporary UAE culture and history. Through painting, drawing, digital prints and sculpture, she uses bold colors and shapes to create abstract images... read more >
Art REVIEW
October 20, 2020
Unbound Perspectives
September 26-October 17, 2020
Unbound Perspectives celebrates the countless ways a single subject can be interpreted and appreciated through photography, painting and digital illustration. Using natural and constructed materials, each piece investigates themes of nature and abstraction informed by scale and viewpoint... read more >
BOOK REVIEW
April 15, 2020
FICTION
EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS
BY PETER SWANSON
Review by Gabino Iglesias
Peter Swanson’s Eight Perfect Murders is a smart, fast-paced narrative that pays tribute to mystery novels and whodunits while offering its own version of one... read more >
BOOK REVIEW
April 09, 2020
POETRY
THE DEATH OF SITTING BEAR
BY N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Review by Gabino Iglesias
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet N. Scott Momaday’s The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems is a gem of a collection that shows a master writing in various formats about a plethora of topics... read more >