By Joe Sacksteder In the 2001 black-and-white space cowboy musical, The American Astronaut, writer/director Cory McAbee sought to write…
Ceaseless Imaginative Striving: A Review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau
By Jeff Bursey “In those months Kafka came to understand that you cannot articulate or grasp final truths, only…
From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir we published in…
Life May Be Elsewhere: A Review of Charles Holdefer’s Don’t Look at Me
By Helen E. Mundler-Arantes In Charles Holdefer’s Don’t Look at Me, Holly Winegarten, a former college basketball star, breaks…
Serious Play: A Review of Jesi Bender’s Child of Light
By Jared Joseph A work of both experimental and historical fiction, Jesi Bender’s Child of Light serves as a…
The Gods Are (Not) Okay: A Review of Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods
By John Schertzer What Kurt Baumeister might be asking us to consider in Twilight of the Gods is that…
I Shall Live Here in Your Ghastly Forever: A Review of Ray Levy’s School
By Robert Glick Smart, acerbic, funny, bitchy, and witchy, Ray Levy’s novel School commingles jouissance with shame, wants you…
From the Archives: Big Other Folio: Robert Coover
Happy birthday, Robert Coover! Celebrate by reading Big Other‘s folio dedicated to Coover, which we published in 2021! It…
Order and Freedom in a Chaotic Dreamscape: A Review of Seb Doubinsky’s The Sum of All Things
By Stephen Joyce In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche argued that Greek tragedy arose from the clash between the…
Dancing with the Big Impossibilities of Time, Presence, and Language: A Review of Lance Olsen’s Always Crashing in the Same Car
By Joe Sacksteder One might hazard: Always Crashing : biography :: David Bowie : all other humans. But, no.…