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.…
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…
Enter Here: On William H. Gass’s The Tunnel
By Chris Vaughan When William H. Gass began The Tunnel, Nixon was president and America landed on the moon.…
Life and Death and Living Metaphors: A Review of Ian S. Maloney’s South Brooklyn Exterminating
By John Schertzer Ian S. Maloney’s South Brooklyn Exterminating tells neither the American story you often hear nor the…
From the Archives: John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor: A Duet
(Editor’s note: We first published this conversation between Big Other contributor’s John Domini and Amber Sparks in 2010.) Part…
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…