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Book reviews appear below within their original Quarterly; for a complete list, see our dedicated reviews page.
Quarterly XVI–Summer 2026
- On Talbot and The Fall
- Sleeping Arrangements, Mary Ann McGuigan
- California Style, Luke Alchin-Scolnick
- Narrative, Poetry, Anika Strite
- The Beauty of Loneliness, Allison Elizabeth
- The World Has Ended (A Few Times Already), Devyn Andrews
- In Search of the Modern(ist), Dan White
Quarterly XV–Spring 2026
- On Time and Tense
- Talbot With The Fall, Michael Nath
- A Smudge at the Tip of Thought, Alexandra Romero
- The Lives of Language, Millie Oliver
- Can you smell the sea when it is nowhere near us?, Allie Serapilio
- Mind The Gap, Lucas Shiller
- Misperception and Identity, Luke Alchin-Scolnick
- 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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The World Has Ended (A Few Times Already)
directly from the publisher here. If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need to be reminded about how social media, AI, short-form content, and/or the decline of literacy all seem to portend the demise of the Novel as an artistic form.
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In Search of the Modern(ist)
The central question I’d like to ask is: how and why has the novel evolved (and evolved in this way) in the post-Dickensian era? I take into that inquiry a conviction in Modernism—somewhat alternatively conceived, perhaps, than might be typical—as the most important, surely most interesting, occurrence to happen to the novel since its formation. A great deal has been said about this topic already, of course; it seems lately that Modernism is rather less dead than…
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Sleeping Arrangements
On a Bronx fire escape, curled up on couch cushions, desperate for a breeze
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California Style in Acid Green Velvet
California’s literary folklore is carried mostly in sleazebaggery. Criminals and hardened detectives, drunken romps through Los Angeles, groupies (and more) of the 60s and 70s, conflict between the haves and have-nots. A literary history of oddballs, creeps, underworlds, lively cities. Places crawling with character and romance and evils and everything else that make people on the page feel so vibrant, so tangible.
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Narrative, Poetry: Form and Meaning in Sing, Dark Times
Considering technological developments of the past half-century such as the domination of redundant images and the proliferation of artificial intelligence, language can be observed as undergoing intense processes of disintegration and (re)formation, with obvious implications for literary production and interpretation. The age-old question stands: what shall we do about form? Narrative?
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The Beauty of Lonliness in It Looks Like a Man
It Looks Like a Man digs up the dirt of loneliness and smears the love we use to combat it allover our faces until we are a grotesque version of our pictures on the wall. McHugh captures the way our minds twist empty calorie flings into lobster or chicken weddings by transforming images with homonyms and double entendres.
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The Lives of Language in Guardians and Saints
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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Talbot with The Fall
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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