Mott Dealy shows up last. We hear the motorcycle before we see the rider, barreling toward us across the Mojave as the sun sinks the last of … Continue Reading
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Non-fiction
Like an Old-Stone Savage Armed
I’ve been in Italy, alone, for nearly nine months by the time my husband joins me for the last months of my sabbatical. I had determined to … Continue Reading
Poetry
Falling from the Roof of the Free World
Miscalculates the top rung, slips, limbs flung out, air parting for his body called back to earth– ankles shattering on … Continue Reading
Videos
Reading: William Pierce, Justin Reed, and Sokunthary Svay (June 9, 2017)
William Pierce is the author of Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle (Arrowsmith Press, 2016). His fiction and essays have … Continue Reading
Reviews
A Thousand Voices
Strawberry Fields byWe need novels like Strawberry Fields and writers like Hilary Plum to help guide us through these unhealthy literary and political times in which … Continue Reading
Boy Meets Girl, Interrupted
Exit West byBoy meets girl. Boy courts girl. Boy’s and girl’s country is torn apart by war. So begins Exit West, Mohsin Hamid’s bittersweet love story of … Continue Reading