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…
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.…
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:…









