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Book reviews appear below within their original Quarterly; for a complete list, see our dedicated reviews page.
Quarterly XV–Spring 2026
- A Smudge at the Tip of Thought, Alexandra Romero
- The Matter That You Read, Dan White
Quarterly XIV–Winter 2026
- On Syllabi and Reading Lists
- Misperception & Identity, Luke Alchin-Scolnick
- One Continuous, Poetic Interrogation of the Now, Kayla Hassett
- Dispatch from the Underworld, Dan White
Quarterly XIII–Fall 2025
- On Vocations and Timing
- Only A Shopping List, Steven R. Kraaijeveld
- The Thing Is Never The Thing, Steven R. Kraaijeveld
- All The Slime of the Sea, Devyn Andrews
- Memories and Imagined Futures, Eliza Marley
- On Casual Cruelty, Anika Strite
Quarterly XII–Summer 2025
- On Boundaries and Movement
- Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble, Iris Rosenberg
- Awake at the Wheel, Carolyn R. Russell
Quarterly XI–Spring 2025
- On Winter and Spring
- For The Love Of Story, Devyn Andrews
Quarterly X–Winter 2025
- On Novels and Forms
- Philosophy in Philadelphia, David Capps
- Liminal, Simon Petrie
- Nazareth, Emma Robin Paxson
- A Persistent Opacity, Devyn Andrews
- Before The End, There Were Endings, D. W. White
Quarterly IX–Fall 2024
- On Readings and Reviews
- California; Or: The End of The World, D. W. White
Quarterly VIII–Summer 2024
- On Language and Meaning
- Pulling Down The Blind, Michael Nath
- Insomnia, Allison Whittenberg
- The Writing Snake, Jon Doughboy
- Oh, The Humanity!, Eamon McGrath
- Perturbed Spirit, Jessica Denzer
- Towards A New Teleology, D. W. White
Quarterly VII–Spring 2024
- On Criticism and Parades
- Senseless Ilium, D. W. White
Quarterly VI–Winter 2024
- On Action and Delay
- Eight Prayer Cards, Abigail Tulenko
- Life in Resus, Seán McNicholl
- The Blender, Tyler Ayres
- The Unhelper, Michael Nath
Quarterly V–Fall 2023
- On Death and Madness
- The Dog Belonged to Someone Who Has Died, Jessica Denzer
Quarterly IV–Summer 2023
- On Paris and California
- The Monkey-Scholars and Vacation, Ivan de Monbrison
- Dublin, S. T. Brant
- Those Eggs Are Going To Cost You, Karen Multer
- Two Prose Poems by Anna de Noailles, Diane Josefowicz
- 12 Rue de l’Odéon, D. W. White
Quarterly III–Spring 2023
- On Songs and Revolutions
- This Song Will Change Your Life, Jessica Denzer
Quarterly II–Winter 2023
- On Births and Prophecies
- Descartes, Thoreau, and The Brass Tacks, Louis Gallo
- Some Notes on Modernism and Creative Writing, Michael Nath
- An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day, D. W. White
Quarterly I–Fall 2022
- On Ghosts and Memories
- Haunted by the Book, Jessica Denzer
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Talbot Process Essay
Vegetables because I told her I’d eat healthy while she is away; she made me promise especially, which I know was a way for her to tell me that she loves me; like my promising her was a way for me to tell her that I love her;
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Mind the Gap
Gould’s collection of stories is more theme and variations than suite or sonata. From story to story, recurring elements drawn from a life on the move pile up, fall apart, and re-concatenate.
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“Can you smell the sea when it is nowhere near us?”
How do we conceptualize belonging? How do the disparate places and communities we come from manifest concurrently within our minds and bodies?
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The Matter That You Read
When we read history, become aware of and engage with it, where does it go? From the page to brain to life, does it sit idly, watching from behind us, or does it breathe inside us? By what force or alchemy does it make itself tangible, legible to us as we continue to forge its path through time? These questions may or may not be relevant as one reads The Cavalier by Nathalie Quintane, but this does…
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A Smudge at the Tip of Thought
When we read history, become aware of and engage with it, where does it go? From the page to brain to life, does it sit idly, watching from behind us, or does it breathe inside us? By what force or alchemy does it make itself tangible, legible to us as we continue to forge its path through time? These questions may or may not be relevant as one reads The Cavalier by Nathalie Quintane, but this does…
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Dispatches from the Underworld
Moniique Wittig’s Across the Acheron, translated from the French by David Le Vay with Margaret Crosland in a new release from Winter Editions, is an energetic, formally impish, fiercely irreverant novel.
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Misperception & Identity
Existing in the modern world, and particularly in modern America, means grappling with identity. It drives us, defines us, boxes us in.
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One Continuous, Poetic Interrogation of the Now
When we read history, become aware of and engage with it, where does it go? From the page to brain to life, does it sit idly, watching from behind us, or does it breathe inside us? By what force or alchemy does it make itself tangible, legible to us as we continue to forge its path through time? These questions may or may not be relevant as one reads The Cavalier by Nathalie Quintane, but this does…
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All The Slime of the Sea
In two short sentences, Smith positions his gem of a novel within the wider literary tradition of oceanic tales and seafaring stories, calling to mind the ancient, rich, and primordially-soupy themes of purpose and survival, narrative and connection, virility and compulsion, madness and legacy, pregnancy, potential, and change—of men inside fish and oceans inside man.
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Memories and Imagined Futures
A woman finds a letter her partner left her and in her immediate response, she sits and she thinks. What has happened? What will happen? These questions open a great chasm of causality that opens up the story’s world.
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