The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…
Today’s Library Haul
Took out a mountain of books from the library this afternoon, in anticipation of National Translation Month.
On Robert Lopez’s All Back Full
Robert Lopez’s darkly comical collections and novels are full of bizarre, dissolute isolatos moving in and out of desultory relationships,…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
Shark Porn
Stephen Burt has a recent review, “Poems about Poems,” from the Nov/Dec issue of the Boston Review that begins, If…
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You know who sells a lot of soap? Procter & Gamble. Do you think P&G soap is “the best”? or…
Tolerance and Accessibility II
Let’s try a slightly different tack this time. Here are the first two paragraphs of a review written by Clifton…
Tolerance and Accessibility
OK, well, obviously, anything that spawned Godwin’s Law isn’t going to be the best place to start an intellectual inquiry…
“Serious” readers, and maybe why they’re so rare
Did you know there’s a Wikipedia entry for “Death of the novel“? Well, now you do, and it seems that…