Benjamin Woodard is editor in chief at Atlas and Alice Magazine. His recent fiction has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Atticus Review, jmww, Hypertrophic Literary, and others. Find him at benjaminjwoodard.com.
Summer 2016
Welcome to Art Class: Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser
Art school students have long been ripe for parody in popular culture, and thanks to fiction and film, it’s easy to picture the stereotype:
Summer 2015
The Body as a Cage: The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
In his second novel, The Betrayers, David Bezmozgis has crafted an epic contained in a thimble: he has distilled forty years of political intrigue, disloyalty and confinement into a compact volume that aims to needle the concepts of birthright and personal integrity.
Winter 2015
The Sound and the Furry: When Mystical Creatures Attack!
Since the seventeenth century, the character Pierrot has offered audiences a go-to image of the “sad clown”: behind the white makeup and buffoonish public act rests a tortured soul.