Nonfiction: Everything You Left Behind by Marlene Olin
Like Kafka’s cockroaches, the Styrofoam head lives forever. Only we disintegrate to dust.
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Nonfiction: In the Way Back, 1985-1995 by Beth Gilstrap
I wonder about the limp in my head, how long it’s been visible.
Grand Vision: An Interview with Diane Ackerman, by Ashlie Kauffman
So much of our experience falls between the seams of language, simply because language is human-made, but our emotions aren’t.
Nonfiction: La Modification by Scott Dominic Carpenter
Paris changes, poet Charles Baudelaire wrote, faster than the human heart, and as far as my neighborhood is concerned, he was right. We’d hardly settled into our new digs before people starting tearing things up.
Essay: Invasive/Invading by Justin Lawrence Daugherty
A painting supposedly produced before 1945 that contains traces of strontium-90 and caesium-137 is most likely a forgery: these isotopes do not occur naturally and are produced in nuclear explosions, […]
The Lost Keys by Abriana Jette
Thirteen days after Michael passed away, the towers came down. Clouds, plumes of smoke. That night, invoices and letterheads blanketed the streets. I read by candlelight the names that appeared on each. Childhood, as I knew it, ceased.
Review: The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball by Alejandro Danois (reviewed by Bill Hughes)
The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball by Alejandro Danois 288 pages Simon & Schuster, 2016 ISBN:978-1451666977 I know it’s a cliche, but I found it […]
Review: 17 Carnations: The Royals, The Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-up in History by Andrew Morton (reviewed by Bill Hughes)
17 Carnations: The Royals, The Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-up in History by Andrew Morton 384 pages Grand Central Publishing, 2015 ISBN: 978-1455527113 They are just a memory now, but […]
Review: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (Ig Bookmarked Series) by Curtis Smith (reviewed by Michael Shattuck)
When he describes Slaughterhouse-Five’s themes in larger contexts, it’s like hearing that great English teacher you had delve into a exegesis with buoyant intensity.
Naming Jack the Ripper by Russell Edwards (Reviewed by Bill Hughes)
Naming Jack the Ripper by Russell Edwards 336 pages Lyons Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1493011902 You think finding someone criminally culpable for the death of Freddie Gray, in Baltimore, Maryland, in […]
