Happy birthday, Pedram Navab! Celebrate Pedram Navab’s birthday by reading this essay we published February 17, 2019! It…
Announcing the Finalists for the 2019 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction!
We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2019 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction. The winner will…
Nuts & Bolts: On Avra Margariti’s “The Sugar That Comes from Funerals,” by Sean Lovelace
Technique # 1: Density. Roxane Gay is an acquaintance of mine, as you may know (though I cannot imagine…
Punching Against Poetry Cartels: An Interview with Rodrigo Toscano
By Sean F. Munro Sean F. Munro: It’s Black Friday today, and in protest, I’m boycotting spending money…
From the Archives: How to Begin: Purple Bra, Prompt as Metaphor, Hiss/Kiss/Howl of Dogs, of the Falling Clouds, (roiling, roiling…), Sarah, by Sean Lovelace
Happy birthday, Sean Lovelace! Celebrate by reading this Lovelace essay we published March 14, 2019! 1. Take a…
Big Other Folio: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The current folio includes an excerpt from Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s novel-in-progress, The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends, my…
A Conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The conversation was conducted by email correspondence over the period between January 15 and March 15, 2018. Shushan Avagyan: You…
Draining the Sea and the Simulation of Trauma, by J. S. DeYoung
“Draining the Sea was less about exploring character and more about how in language trauma sustains itself and manifests.…
“All War Is Deception as Is All History”: Structure and Time in The Daydreaming Boy, by Jeffery Renard Allen
The aesthetic and thematic concerns of Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s layered and contradictory novel The Daydreaming Boy hinge on a…
Rapture, a Bull-Hook, a Puzzle, by Rikki Ducornet
Focused on fearless inquiry into the Armenian genocide of 1915–1923, Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Three Apples Fell from Heaven is…