May 19, 2026
Succumbing to Projection
On Woo Woo by Ella Baxter I. Fish as a Gun I pressed Record on my iPhone and reached for the brown leather journal. It was time for my landlady […]
April 3, 2026
A Little More Than Life: In Defense of Some Barely Mitigated Suffering
On Dogs by C. Mallon Catastrophic and violent, C. Mallon’s debut novel, Dogs (Scribner, 2025), is littered with pink. Pink is an interior color here, less pillow, more brain, less […]
November 7, 2025
A Home is Not Your Home
On Private Rites by Julia Armfield and The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden “Let me carry you. It’s okay, you’re okay. My feet are already wet. You can sleep more […]
March 12, 2025
I Do Not Know Lucy Ives
The latest from Lucy Ives, An Image of My Name Enters America, is composed of five slyly connected essays, all orbiting an obsessive attempt to externalize self-knowledge through history, memory, […]
July 1, 2019
Dangerous Edge
Thom Gunn. New Selected Poems. Ed. Clive Wilmer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 284 pp. $30. Thom Gunn (1929–2004) — like Aldous Huxley, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and David […]
May 1, 2019
Two Poets by the Lake
James Wright: A Life in Poetry. Jonathan Blunk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 512 pp. $40.00. Our bodies, too, our moulted bodies, spread their loins and wings below, […]