Dear Reader, Art, artists, and arts organizations are under attack. Under the guise of cutting government spending, some of the…
Happy 16th Birthday, Big Other!
Sixteen years ago, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its…
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…
Pulsing in Parallel: The Mirror Worlds of British and Chinese Science Fiction: An Interview with Lyu Guangzhao
By Angus Stewart I first met Lyu Guangzhao in Leeds, England. We were the two early birds in the…
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…
There Will Be Shrapnel: A Review of Jarret Keene’s Hammer of the Dogs
By Steve Danziger If a Las Vegan imagines their city as a dystopian war zone, is this dread, wishful…
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…
Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…
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…