By Michael A. Antonucci I met up with Jeffery Renard Allen in downtown Chicago one afternoon last September. Having…
A Vital, Empathetic Act of Witness: On Emily Jungmin Yoon’s Ordinary Misfortunes
By Melanie Hyo-In Han Scrolling through an online list of Korean poets some time ago, I learned about Emily…
Misdirection as Mapping the Periphery: On Tobias Carroll’s Ex-Members
By Joe Sacksteder Tobias Carroll’s new novel, Ex-Members, immerses readers in the punk scene of New Jersey in the…
Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2023 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2023 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…
The Mysterious Afterlife of Revolutionary Events: Jim Feast’s Karl Marx, Private Eye
By Jerome Sala Jim Feast’s Karl Marx, Private Eye is a remarkable book. On one level, it’s a wildly…
Nietzsche as Old and New Myth: A Review of D. Harlan Wilson’s Nietzsche: The Unmanned Autohagiography
By Michael Templeton Chapter 22 of D. Harlan Wilson’s Nietzsche: The Unmanned Autohagiography is devoted to an explanation of…
Announcing Big Other’s Best of the Net 2023 Nominations!
We are pleased to nominate the following art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of the…
Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Big Other Book Awards!
Delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 Big Other Book Awards! All the books below are linked to their…
From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey
Happy birthday, Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir we published in 2021! Then go…
From the Archives: Five Nonfictions, by Michael Martone
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading these five Martone nonfictions, which we published in 2022! Be…