by Lindsey | Aug 18, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Content warning: gun violence in a school (there are dark themes and drug use throughout, but the most shocking, triggering event is a school shooting that is mostly averted but could be very triggering) Rob Benvie is the author of two previous novels, Maintenance and...
by Lindsey | Jul 28, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The cover art for Neils Hav’s Moments of Happiness features a wall with wallpaper and paint partially peeled away, revealing layer after layer of understory. In keeping with this image, Hav opens the collection with the line: “The battered inside of the cupboard under...
by Lindsey | Jun 26, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Lucian Childs’ short stories have been widely published in various literary journals throughout the US and Canada. Dreaming Home is his debut book-length work of fiction, divided into six chapters that focus on different characters spanning a time period of about...
by Lindsey | May 18, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays
Books about the craft of writing often make big promises. Typically written for an audience of aspiring authors who long for the guidance of an expert, a lot of writing craft books insist that they hold the secret key to helping unlock the novels, stories, poems, and...
by Lindsey | Mar 20, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Graphic Novel
The Holodomor, or Great Famine of Ukraine, is another black hole in history. Current scholarship estimates 3.5 to 5 million people of Ukraine died over the 1932 to 1933 year, as collectivization disrupted small farms and Stalin attempted to stamp out resistance with...
by Lindsey | Feb 21, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
In Earle Street: Poems, Arleen Paré digs into the infrastructure of place. Unearths for us the very foundations of urban life. As if to say “Look! This is who we are”. Not simply people inside buildings. But storm drains and catch basins, trees and their...
