Love, In Theory by E. J. Levy
The protagonists in the nine stories that make up E.J. Levy’s Love, In Theory (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction) are almost all highly educated, the sort…
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“The Crossed Out Swastika” by Cyrus Cassells
Cyrus Cassells’ fifth collection of poems, The Crossed-Out Swastika, treads the familiar yet treacherous and muddy ground of World War II. For a less skilful poet, such hostile territory may…
NW by Zadie Smith
The fat sun stalls by the phone masts. This is how Zadie Smith opens her latest novel, NW, and how appropriate–that something so fiery and core-hot, so screaming and universal…
The Invisibles by Hugh Sheehy
“Maybe, if you knew nothing about me, I could sit right next to you, and you would never have known it,” says Cynthia, the seventeen-year-old narrator of the title story…
You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis
Because approaching a lake is a strange thing, especially in the opening pages. Small detours abound.
The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, by Adam Prince
The eleven stories in Adam Prince’s debut collection, The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, feel lived rather than written. Like stories told by strangers in bars when you’re both drunk,…
“In Time’s Rift” by Ernst Meister
In Heidegger’s essay ‘The Nature of Language’ he poses the question “When does language speak itself as language?” He answers: “Curiously enough, when we cannot find the right word for…
My Heart Is an Idiot, by Davy Rothbart
Modern literary fiction is so often told from an immersive first person perspective that sometimes the line between the classic essayist and the contemporary novelist disappears. Found Magazine originator and frequent…
Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky
Thunderbird is one of the more traditional collections I’ve come across recently, both in tone and in form. Lasky doesn’t experiment heavily with form, preferring to stick to free verse…
Yok, by Tim Davys
Life on streets of Tim Davys’ novel, Yok, is tough. Choices are hard, and knocks are harder. But the characters are soft. Squeezably soft. Stuffed with little more than fluff, the…
Having Been an Accomplice by Laura Cronk
Cronk’s Having Been an Accomplice is layered in the “imagined” of the real world, no matter the continent.
This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz
To read Junot Díaz can be to learn about yourself and your views of his characters as much as you do about the stories themselves.