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.…
Happy 15th Birthday, Big Other!
Fifteen years ago, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its…
Interweavings: A Conversation with Mita Mahato
By Alissa Hattman Mita Mahato is a comix artist and poet who assembles her panels and pages with cut…
Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2024 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2024 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…
Join Us for the 2023 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony!
You are cordially invited to attend the fifth annual Big Other Book Awards Ceremony! Date: Friday, September 27, 2024 Time:…
Opening to What Is Not Yet Known: An Interview with Kathryn Weld
By Gillian Cummings Kathryn Weld’s Afterimage is a luminous debut book of poetry, thought-provoking and heart-opening, gentle and restrained,…
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…
Writing Against Insularity: An Interview with Zack Rogow
By Yongbo Ma Yongbo Ma: Your poetry collection The Selfsame Planet (Mayapple Press, 1999) was described by its editor…