...a spectrum of characters and the winding grief, anxieties, loneliness, exhilarations, and desires that spin inside them and ricochet through disparate scenarios.
Understated and wrecked, Antonio “Tony” Gongora, the 53-year old narrator of Mexican writer Juan Villor’s recent novel, The Reef , is in a suspended state of recovery: recovering from the …
QUEEN AT A PARTY Does the green dress sheath Herself, brain included? Married others shift limb to limb, parakeets on a wire. Madrigal, bloodrigal, chattering goblets, was she Herself? Who Who, …
'éetu: so be it, he says— & I ignite a flame striking a wooden match along the torso of my god: a face mirroring a boy afraid of only him- self: a shadow …
& after the first course, your corsage flatlines Beautiful convulsions Then, it sprouts wings, thorns, claws its way up your arm to swallow you goosebump by goosebump
You see the flower's form leak into itself. A self. Some things in America still make sense. I open my junk mail, Disney red. Your family. Liquid uttered out into the night freezes …
Forget the finger-flipping road rage, smile for the tiny waving palm. Bobble-hand Pope Francis figurines for your dashboards are available at the Madonna Shop. We got …
Is it really warranted, for you to bring a gun to New York, city of high achievement? Thoughtless we both stood, me, trying to talk you down from taking an overdose of cerulean powder, …
Is it really warranted, for you to bring a gun to New York, city of high achievement? Thoughtless we both stood, me, trying to talk you down from taking an overdose of cerulean powder, …
So much goes on without it baffles every time I begin. I read, I go walking. I take long routes past the elementary school, the fidgety, nebulous line at the crosswalk and the …
I called desire a lie that wants a cure, but don't assume the cure for lies is truth, or that by cure I meant a kind of health
Artist friend of mine works part-time at a store that sells Red Rooster pills to any guy who thinks he needs a “male sexual performance booster” or any gal who wants a 60-tab …
The cycle of desperation and abundance play a significant role in The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings , Juan Rulfo’s legendary lost novel translated into English to mark the 100-year …
Christian Bancroft: Describe some of the current projects you’re working on right now. Matt Grimes: Most of my work lately has been acrylic paintings, and I try to always tie them back to an …
His skin was peeled in so many places, you can’t recognize the color of his hair, but when you view the rest of the tufts on his forehead, one could say it was just normal brown…He was ancient, …
It’s late on a Saturday night and Metalhead is at some kid’s basement party. The kid got the new Slayer album that afternoon and has it blaring because his parents are not home. Rockgod holds …
The Blunt Research Group descended upon the literary community in the summer of 2015, veiled with mystery, intrigue, and profundity. In their author bio, it states that they are “a nameless …
Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas’s series of essays, Don’t Come Back , is an exploration of belonging and of the ways memory and imagination interact to create history. Ferreira …
Author Jeff VanderMeer’s newest novel Borne (FSG, out April 25 th ) has been named one of the most anticipated of 2017 by The New York Times , Publishers Weekly , and others. Colson Whitehead …
Apocalyptic, unflinching, flinty yet lush, Hala Alyan’s HIJRA is a gathering of vivid lyrics on flight and exile. As the title suggests ( hijra refers to the prophet Muhammed’s migration from …