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Happy 14th Birthday, Big Other!
Fourteen years ago today, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its…
Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2023 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2023 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…
The Mysterious Afterlife of Revolutionary Events: Jim Feast’s Karl Marx, Private Eye
By Jerome Sala Jim Feast’s Karl Marx, Private Eye is a remarkable book. On one level, it’s a wildly…
Nietzsche as Old and New Myth: A Review of D. Harlan Wilson’s Nietzsche: The Unmanned Autohagiography
By Michael Templeton Chapter 22 of D. Harlan Wilson’s Nietzsche: The Unmanned Autohagiography is devoted to an explanation of…
A Novel Deliverance from Evil: A Review of Elle Nash’s Deliver Me
By William Walsh Deliver Me is a dark nativity story, and Elle Nash is a writer who commandingly crafts…
Kimberly Ann Lyons’s “Coffee with Lavender” Is a Best American Poetry 2023 Pick!
Big news! Kimberly Ann Lyons’s “Coffee with Lavender,” which we published last year, has been anthologized in The Best American…
Announcing the Finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Poetry!
We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The winner will be announced…
Announcing the Finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Fiction!
We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced…