by Everett Burge | Jun 25, 2020 | Book Reviews
Grief floods through Noah: A Review of Sim Kern’s Depart, Depart! When catastrophe strikes, our agency to determine where we shelter and who we associate with is deeply constrained, and for queer people, this loss of agency can prove dangerous. Sim Kern’s debut...
by Carson Ash Beker | Oct 1, 2019 | Book Reviews, Editorial, Interviews
Dear Friend/ Teacher/Comrade/Lover/Artist: Interview with Foglifter Contributor Nancy Au Dear Friend/Teacher/Comrade/Lover/Artist is a collection of emails between myself, Carson Ash Beker, and Nancy Au, on the occasion of the release of Nancy Au’s Spider Love...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Jan 14, 2019 | Book Reviews
Not Here, by Hieu Minh Nguyen Hieu Minh Nguyen’s second collection, Not Here, is a remarkable work of emotional generosity and alchemic poetic power, not only delving into trauma, isolation, and pain, but also demonstrating how such experiences may be...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Dec 1, 2018 | Book Reviews
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Reviewer’s note: this review was originally written for The East Bay Review April 16, 2018. In his A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize–winning debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo conjures a lush, breathing landscape that permeates and...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Nov 4, 2018 | Book Reviews
Each Gutsy Redecorated Cell: Wren Hanks’s The Rise of Genderqueer Marginalized people are tasked with living in a society that wants them dead; and genderqueer/trans folks in particular have shockingly high rates of suicide and suicidal ideation....
by Wesley Cohen | May 10, 2018 | Book Reviews
Book review Review: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee [Reviewer’s note: this review was originally written for The East Bay Review, whose editors gave me permission to repost it in its entirety here. Find the original review here.] To read...
