The Belly Tract #1

reviewed by Ryan Gleason

Originally published on February 1, 2012

This is my new column. It resembles the inside of my belly.

Post-Modern Hijinx

reviewed by Richard Holinger

Originally published on July 1, 2011

Sloth. Mark Goldblatt. Greenpoint Press, 2010. $16.00. 173 pp.

Quick Fall of Light

reviewed by Jeremy O'Brine

Originally published on January 1, 2011

From asteroids and comets with ‘Earth or Bust’ tattooed on their underbellies, to stories of super volcanoes and earthquake storms, the Grand Narrative of our end always seems to draw

Citrus County

reviewed by Miriam Roth

Originally published on December 3, 2010

Described by one critic as “Southern Gothic goes to middle school,” Citrus County, like its Gulf Coast namesake, feels both alien and alarmingly familiar. Brandon, who grew up just

First, Do No Harm

reviewed by Adrienne Friedberg

Originally published on November 16, 2010

Knife Music, the title of David Carnoy’s debut novel, refers to the soundtrack surgeons choose to accompany their own performance in the operating room. This medical thriller opens like a scene from one of the better episodes of ER.

THE IMPORTANT THING IS…Card Game

reviewed by Richard Holinger

Originally published on October 1, 2010

“Look! Up on the shelf!” “It’s a game!” “It’s a Ouija board!” “No, it’s a poetry chapbook!”

Sh*t My Dad Says

reviewed by Richard Luck

Originally published on August 1, 2010

What followed is nothing short of publishing history, as Halpern went from zero Twitter followers to a book deal with HarperCollins in less than two months. But that’s a topic for another story…

Hints and Allegations: poems by Amanda J. Bradley

reviewed by Richard Holinger

Originally published on August 1, 2010

Hints and Allegations, Poems by Amanda J. Bradley. NYQ Books. New York, 2009. 74 pages. $14.95. The feisty and assertive nature of the unnamed protagonist in many of Amanda J. Bradley’s poems is as compelling and well-defined as a novelist’s. The apparently autobiographical rendering of an emotional breakup serves to structure the book thematically, if [...]

2666

reviewed by Ryan Gleason

Originally published on July 1, 2010

Roberto Bolaño’s final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. It’s the kind of work that possesses a staggering amount of angles, gliding through time periods, characters, both widespread and intimate violence, sexuality, and Bolaño’s expertise, the imagining and dismantling of artists.

In the Company of Angels: A Novel

reviewed by Liam Mac Sheoinin

Originally published on April 9, 2010

Thomas E. Kennedy’s In the Company of Angels : A Novel is an elegy to the human heart. It begins on the couch of a Copenhagen psychiatrist treating a Chilean torture victim, Bernardo Greene.