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…
African Time Machine: An Interview with Jeffery Renard Allen
By Michael A. Antonucci I met up with Jeffery Renard Allen in downtown Chicago one afternoon last September. Having…
A Vital, Empathetic Act of Witness: On Emily Jungmin Yoon’s Ordinary Misfortunes
By Melanie Hyo-In Han Scrolling through an online list of Korean poets some time ago, I learned about Emily…
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…