Review of Bone Warriors
/In her review of Bone Warriors, Leah Lambrusco highlights the book's twists and turns, some more convincing than others.
Read MoreBook Review: A Jello Horse
/Matthew Simmons' novell A Jello Horse maps the fortunes of an enigmatic crew known only by their initials. John Madera reviews.
Read MoreReview of The Demon's Lexicon
/In her review of The Demon's Lexicon, Leah Lambrusco illustrates this novel's supernatural effects on the reader.
Read MoreReview of Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs
/In his review of Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs, Chris Tonelli explains the mesmerism of Ellen Kennedy's prose
Read MoreSeptember 2009 Issue
/Photo by Michael George
Read MorePrince of a Lost Realm
/He ruled the world of Sunday comics with a singing sword and a grin. He was Prince Valiant, and Fantagraphics lets him fight again. Steve Donoghue goes blow-by-blow.
Read MoreTricky Shticks
/Nixon, Bushes, and the War on Terror have been surprisingly good for poetry. Maureen Thorson releases her findings on National Anthem and Dick of the Dead.
Read MoreNew York Trilogy
/A local, a booster, and a tourist take on New York; Sam Sacks tours the city with E.L. Doctorow, Colm Tóibín, and Colum McCann.
Read MorePhotography Album and Q&A with Michael George
/Open Letters talks shop with cover photographer Michael George
Read MoreCosmic Gobbledygook
/Did it all start with Bjork, or was she riding an inevitable wave? The world of Icelandic pop is weird, wild, and disarmingly wonderful – let Marc Vincenz be your guide.
Read More‘You Gotta Get the First Beat Right’
/If you don’t know The Jazz Book, then as Miles Davis would say, ‘you ain’t never gonna know.’ Brad Jones shows us the groove.
Read MoreJazz Festivals and What They Play There
/Self-appointed jazz authorities like Wynton Warsalis weigh in on jazz festivals and the musicians who love them, and their listeners. John G. Rodwan, Jr., devoted listener, sorts the noise.
Read MoreCarmen ex Machina
/The blips and whistles of Mario’s soundtrack have evolved into grand strings and horns. Phillip A. Lobo assays how real music has come to video games, and vice versa.
Read MorePrimordial Sounds of Lost Islands
/Music correspondent Marc Vincenz voyages to the end of the world – the windswept Faeroe Islands – and reports back on the entrancing music they make there. And the parties.
Read MoreCracking the Music Genome
/Your father’s FM radio can close up shop, as far as Steve Brachman’s concerned; the music you want is at your fingertips, and you hear it the way you like it, on your computer.
Read MoreStem and Root
/From the forbidding North to the torrid South, the poetry debuts of Joshua Harmon and Farrah Field explore the geography of words. John Cotter gives centrality to locality.
Read Morefrom LA LA LA
/from LA LA LA, a poem by Sampson Starkweather
Read MoreA Fondness for Turtles
/In Following the Water, David C. Carroll has written another paean of praise to the gentle world of pond turtles. But is he writing about a lost world? Tuc McFarland hopes not.
Read MoreForgive Us Our Risks
/Lydia Peelle revisits the territory of Southern fiction in her short story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, and Karen Vanuska treks the vivid terrain
Read MoreThe New, Improved Undead
/Hot-ticket director Guilermo del Toro has co-written a vampire novel that just happens to be about 50 percent flawed. Coincidence? Zombie expert Deirdre Crimmins is on the case.
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