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July 18, 2023 | Book Review

Book Review of Nazlı Koca’s The Applicant

John Gu

She wanders a Sisyphean circuit around Berlin: to meetings with immigration lawyers, uninspiring parties, lame poetry readings.

May 30, 2023 | Book Review

Classified Insanity-Inducing Weapons: Gloria Naylor's '1996'

Katie Frank

“To be inside of someone's mind has to be the sexiest thing in the world.”

 

 

March 3, 2023 | Book Review

Lovely Pamela: A Review of Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry and Truth

Barrie Miskin

There’s an impulse to reduce the Tommy and Pam love story to easy pop-psychology terms: they had a trauma bond, he had a Madonna/Whore complex after she became a mother.

February 19, 2023 | Book Review

In the Eyes of Elephants: A Review of Prince Harry's 'Spare'

Katie Frank

I thought maybe I would learn something about how to be less judgemental, or something.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!