Review |Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic

The Loud Prophecy of Deaf Republic by S. T. Brant All books are instructive; the value is in their secret instruction, the teachings the author offers us on second and third readings, when time mingles with reflection, when the text takes on a special aura, as a solar eclipse, a rare presentation of light brought naturally...

Review | Brian Leung’s Ivy vs. Dogg: With A Cast Of Thousands

Brian Leung gives us a fun social commentary in this quirky and audacious novel. Readers of his earlier novels will find familiar themes around societal fault lines, but the real joy here is the pitch-perfect parody...

Review: Here High Note, High Note by Catherine Blauvelt

Rimbaud’s “Vowels” is no longer poetry’s ultimate synesthetic orgy: that honor now belongs to the entirety of Catherine Blauvelt’s debut collection, Here High Note, High Note.

Review: Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience

Wiseman explores intimacy and fatality as symbiotic philosophies that divulge the role of the battered wife’s body—its possession, its duplicity, and ultimately, its reclamation