Delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature…
From the Archives: An Interview with John Keene, by Jeffery Renard Allen
Happy birthday, John Keene! Celebrate by reading Jeffery Renard Allen’s epic conversation with Keene, about the latter’s Annotations and Counternarratives,…
An Interview with John Keene, by Jeffery Renard Allen
In memory of Binyavanga Wainaina, Randall Kenan, and Greg Tate Jeffery Renard Allen: I’d like to hear your thoughts…
Announcing the Finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction!
We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction. The winner will…
Announcing the Finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Translation!
In my recent correspondence with translator par excellence Suzanne Jill Levine, she wrote: We who love books are all happy…
Strange Like Home: A Review of Kristin Bock’s Glass Bikini
By Kelly Weber An ominous sense of a strange, sometimes nightmarish broken mirror reality pervades Glass Bikini, Kristin Bock’s…
Review of Jesse Baer’s Midwestern Infinity Doctrine
By Krystal Languell Jesse Baer’s Midwestern Infinity Doctrine is a novel undoing the genre by unstitching time in both…
Moldenke and His World: On the Fiction of David Ohle
By Daniel Green Readers encountering David Ohle’s work for the first time through his most recent novel, The Death…
“In Vast Flights, Borne Along Like Smoke, Mist”: A Review Edwin Torres’s Quanundrum [i will be your many angled thing]
By Kristin Dykstra One morning in late November, 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge watched the sun rise. Then a mass…
Most Anticipated Small Press Releases: September-December 2021
Here are some compelling September-December 2021 small press books that captured my attention, including Big Other contributor Edwin Torres’s Quanundrum:…