Review of Before I Lose My Style
/Steve Donoghue reviews the structurally bold gay novel "Before I Lose My Style".
Read MoreReview of The Great Perhaps
/Steve Donoghue review "The Great Perhaps," "Joe Meno’s best book to date by several orders of magnitude."
Read MoreReview of Meriwether Lewis
/Find out more about Danisi and Jackson's biography of Meriwether Lewis by reading Steve Donoghue's informing review: "but we know what kind of a book Danisi and Jackson have written: meaty, entertaining, and best of all, definitive."
Read MoreReview of Into the Beautiful North
/Into the Beautiful North, writes Steve Donoghue, is "a strong, sensitive, wonderful novel, one richly deserving of wide success."
Read MoreMay 2009 Issue
/Photo by Joe Sacks
Read MoreGrovely! Grovely! Grovely! and all Grovely!
/The late Roger Deakin celebrates his beloved trees one last time in Wildwood, and Bryn Haworth gladly finds himself within a dark forest.
Read MoreThe Crowing of Corncrakes
/The Decemberists seem benign enough, but their songs are blood-dimmed with rape, drownings, and even cannibalism. The body count rises on their new release The Hazards of Love, but Lianne Habinek also discovers fresh wellsprings of feeling.
Read MoreDoubling Up on a Pair of Losers
/Jerry Siegel and Miguel Cervantes: each created an immortal literary character (Superman and Don Quixote, of course), but what else could they possibly have in common? Taking his cue from Gerard Jones’ Men of Tomorrow, Robert Latona says: more than you think.
Read MoreStrange New Worlds
/J.J. Abrams’ long-awaited Star Trek reboot has hit theaters, and Steve Donoghue looks into whether it carries on a proud legacy, or else overturns it.
Read MoreRom Zom Com
/Exiled to the basement, pelted with garbage, and unlucky in love: zombies have it rough in S.G. Browne’s new novel Breathers. Dierdre Crimmins lends a sympathetic ear (figuratively, of course).
Read MoreTen Questions for Sarah Ruden
/Sarah Ruden, the latest and greatest translator of Vergil’s Aeneid, offers a funny and fascinating glimpse inside the classicist’s world in this Open Letters interview.
Read MoreThe Empire Strikes Back?
/Edward Lucas, in The New Cold War, puts a modern face on the hoary geopolitical struggle between the Russian bear and the American eagle. Greg Waldmann sorts the players and evaluates the stakes.
Read MoreFrom Moving Day
/new poetry from Maureen Thorson
Read MorePostal Worker? Poodle?
/Poet’s poet Lyn Hejinian has turned poet’s novelist in Lola, half of her new collection Saga/Circus. John Cotter circles its sagacity.
Read MoreJoshua Redman Makes His Move
/Joshua Redman’s new album Compass makes some daring allusions to the all-time titans of jazz; John G. Rodwan, Jr. listens to hear how Redman borrows from those pastmasters and how he departs from them.
Read MoreRoots Into Entrails
/A Nazi picaresque wouldn’t seem to be a likely read, but Karen Vanuska reviews a new reprint of Jakov Lind’s 1962 World War II novel Landscape in Concrete and finds its grim, absurd power undimmed by the years.
Read MoreTrouble Shooting: Video Games into Movies
/You’d think any brand of movie that could produce Super Mario Bros. would have no advocates left, but you’d be wrong! Our gaming expert Phillip A. Lobo diagnoses the problem to date and charts a new path for video game movies.
Read MoreUncle Livy
/Steve Donoghue’s “Year with the Romans” turns its eye upon Titus Livius, who either wrote poetical history or historical poetry, depending on who you ask.
Read MoreSon Retour?
/In 1911, the unthinkable happened: the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. R. A. Scotti tells the story in The Vanished Smile, and Jan van Doop has some ideas of his own.
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