Reviews
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Double Feature by Owen King
Owen King does an amazing thing in his debut novel Double Feature by making the stakes to these questions matter to his characters in a fundamental, identity-forming way; he clears the air of stuffy academic arguments or stoner philosophizing in…
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You by Austin Grossman
The last pages of You by Austin Grossman recount a timeline of video game history. This timeline ends in March 2008 with the death of Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons. While You is a novel set in the…
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Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick
Jim Zukowski reviews Patricia Kirkpatrick’s Odessa today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Bully Pulpit by Kim Bridgford
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kim Bridgford’s Bully Pulpit today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Litany for the City by Ryan Teitman
Michelle Salcido reviews Ryan Teitman’s Litany for the City today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Few novelists go on the attack like Lionel Shriver. Whether the topic is teenaged killers or domestic terrorism or the U.S. health care system, Shriver makes every carefully chosen word of every sentence pack a predatory bite. In her new…
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Striven, the Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jody Smiling reviews Jeffrey Pethybridge’s Striven, the Bright Treatise today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Small Porcelain Head by Allison Benis White
Marcus Myers reviews Allison Benis White’s Small Porcelain head today in Rumpus Poetry.
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All That Is by James Salter
James Salter’s new novel, All That Is – his first in thirty-four years – is a masterpiece. At the moment, the span of years between Salter’s books has got people interested in him. In a recent New Yorker profile, Nick…
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To See the Queen by Allison Seay
Sally Rosen Kindred reviews Allison Seay’s To See the Queen today in Rumpus Poetry.
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I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane
“One good thing about being a woman,” writes Sheila Heti in How Should a Person Be?, “is we haven’t too many examples yet of what a genius looks like.” Heti’s character is being facetious, or maybe not, it’s hard to…
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In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
Werner Herzog explained that what Kinski saw as sensuality in the jungle (during the filming of Fitzcarraldo), Herzog thought of as “overwhelming and collective murder.” We begin In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods in…