**under (re)construction**
November 2022
Doom Town (Gabriel Blackwell) at Barrelhouse
April 2022
The Dark Hours (Michael Connelly) at Alta
September 2021
A Paradise Built in Hell (and Lost) (Rebecca Solnit) at Alta Online
November 2019
The Yellow House (Sarah M. Broom) at Carolina Quarterly
This Particular Happiness (Jackie Shannon Hollis) at Heavy Feather Review
FKA USA (Reed King) at Locus
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura (Christine Wunnicke) at Locus
Internment (Samira Ahmed) at Locus
October 2019
Burn It Down (ed. Lilly Dancyger) at NPR
The Undying (Anne Boyer) at Book & Film Globe
Like Wings, Your Hands (Elizabeth Earley) at Gertrude
Silver in the Wood (Emily Tesh) at Locus
If, Then (Kate Hope Day) at Locus
Necropolis PD (Nathan Sumison) at Locus
September 2019
If I Don’t Make It, I Love You (ed. Amye Archer & Loren Kleinman) at the Washington Post
Five Windows (Jon Roemer) at Book & Film Globe
The Nothing That Is (Johanna Skibsrud) at BOMB
Homesick (Jennifer Croft) and Homesick (Nino Cipri) at Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Bloomland (John Englehardt) and This Tilting World (Colette Fellous, trans. Sophie Lewis) at Book & Film Globe
White Flights (Jess Row) at LARB
Air Logic (Laurie J. Marks) at Locus
No Good Very Bad Asian (Leland Cheuk) at Book & Film Globe
As a River (Sion Dayson) at the Arts Fuse
Upon a Burning Throne (Ashok K. Banker) at Locus
Spiritual Choreographies (Carlos Labbe, trans. Will Vanderhyden) at On the Seawall
The Untold Gaze (Stephen O’Donnell et al.) at After the Art
No Country for Old Gnomes (Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne) at Locus
August 2019
Machine (Susan Steinberg) at On the Seawall
No Finis (Deborah Woodard) at Anomaly
Amnesty (Lara Elena Donnelly) at Locus
We Are All Good People Here (Susan Rebecca White) at the Arts Fuse
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through (T Fleischmann) at Pleiades
The Long Accomplishment (Rick Moody) at Book & Film Globe
July 2019
Laika’s Window (Kurt Caswell) at Brevity
Fleishman Is in Trouble (Taffy Brodesser-Akner) at Book & Film Globe
Gather the Fortunes (Bryan Camp) at Locus
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Waubgeshig Rice) at Locus
June 2019
Not Everyone Is Special (Josh Denslow) in Pleiades 39.2 (print only; read at Project Muse with subscription)
Isako Isako (Mia Ayumi Malhotra) in CALYX 31:1 (print only)
Bookmarked: Stoner (Steve Almond) at Book & Film Globe
The Gutter Prayer (Gareth Hanrahan) at Locus
May 2019
Smoke and Summons (Charlie N. Holmberg) at Locus
The Lesson (Cadwell Turnbull) at Locus
Catch, Release (Adrienne Harun) at the Kenyon Review
The Conviction of Cora Burns (Carolyn Kirby) at the Adroit Journal
Juliet the Maniac (Juliet Escoria) at Book & Film Globe
Tides of the Titans (Thoraiya Dyer) at Locus
What Should Be Wild (Julia Fine) at Locus
Banshee (Rachel DeWoskin) and Choke Box (Christina Milletti) at Women’s Review of Books (Issue 36.3)
April 2019
Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, ed. Carmen Maria Machado) at Vol. 1 Brooklyn
A Dog Between Us (duncan b. barlow) at Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Lost Gods (Micah Yongo) at Locus
Empire of Sand (Tasha Suri) at Locus
Revenge of the Translator (Brice Matthieussent) at Carolina Quarterly
All Ships Follow Me (Mieke Eerkens) at NPR
March 2019
The Ash Family (Molly Dektar) at the Arts Fuse
You Who Enter Here (Erika T. Wurth) at the Fanzine
The Bird King (G. Willow Wilson) at the Arts Fuse
Sissy (Jacob Tobia) at the Washington Post
This Never Happened (Liz Scott) at Book and Film Globe
Something Like Breathing (Angela Readman) at the Guardian
The Body Myth (Rheea Mukherjee) at Book and Film Globe
February 2019
2018 in Review at Locus
The Western Wind (Samantha Harvey) at the Arts Fuse
Gatsby’s Child (Dorin Schumacher) at the Arts Fuse
Handbook for a Post-Roe America (Robin Marty) at Book and Film Globe
Öræfi: The Wasteland (Ófeigur Sigurðsson) at Carolina Quarterly
Mother Winter (Sophia Shalmiyev) at Book and Film Globe
Surge (Etel Adnan) at VIDA
Tonic and Balm (Stephanie Allen) at the Masters Review
Go Ahead in the Rain (Hanif Abdurraqib) at Rock and Roll Globe
The Collected Schizophrenias (Esmé Weijun Wang) at LARB
January 2019
Thirty-Seven (Peter Stenson) at 3:AM
Musalaheen (Jason Arment) and Stranger in the Pen (Mohamed Asem) at sinkhole
Last Night in Nuuk (Niviaq Korneliussen) at Los Angeles Review of Books
You Know You Want This (Kristen Roupenian) at Book and Film Globe
Unmarriageable (Soniah Kamal) at Jane to Georgette
Last Woman Standing (Amy Gentry) at BUST
World Domination: The Sub Pop Records Story (Gillian G. Gaar) at Rock and Roll Globe
Virtuoso (Yelena Moskovich) at the Times Literary Supplement (paywall)
Narrator (Bragi Ólafsson) at Cleaver
Callbacks (Meg Whiteford) and Frail Sister (Karen Green) at Book and Film Globe
G (Emmalea Russo) at Anomaly
December 2018
We Can Save Us All (Adam Nemett) at Barrelhouse
You Could Stop It Here (Stacy Austin Egan) at Pleiades
The Cloven (B. Catling) at Locus
Scribe (Alyson Hagy) at the Carolina Quarterly
Hollywood vs. the Author (ed. Stephen Jay Schwartz) at Book and Film Globe
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Anne Boyer) at the Los Angeles Review
We Can’t Breathe (Jabari Asim) at Brevity
November 2018
The Golden State (Lydia Kiesling) at the Women’s Review of Books, vol. 35 #6 (print/PDF only)
Love in the New Millennium (Can Xue) at the Arts Fuse
After the Death of Shostakovich Père (Maya Sonenberg) at Pleiades
Notes from No Man’s Land (Eula Biss) at sinkhole
The Making Sense of Things (George Choundas) at Western Humanities Review
Beyoncé in Formation (Omise’eke Tinsley) at the Houston Chronicle
There There (Tommy Orange) at the Times Literary Supplement (paywall)
October 2018
The Rending and the Nest (Kaethe Schwehn) [full review] and Moon Brow (Shahriar Mandanipour) [short take] at Locus
While You Were Gone (Sybil Baker) at Heavy Feather Review
Sleeping Dragons (Magela Baudoin) at Cleaver
The Witch Elm (Tana French) at the Mantle (also listed on the Essays page)
Riddance (Shelley Jackson) at Popscure
So Many Islands (ed. Nicholas Laughlin and Nailah Folami Imoja) at sinkhole
The Quelling (Barbara Barrow) at the Inquisitive Mind (profile/review)
For Other Ghosts (Donald Quist) at the Arts Fuse
CoDex 1962 (Sjón) at the LA Review of Books (LARB)
September 2018
[It] Incandescent (Amy Pence) at The Bind
Night Moves (Jessica Hopper) at 3:AM
A Certain Loneliness (Sandra Gail Lambert) at River Teeth
Summer Cannibals (Melanie Hobson) at the Arts Fuse
August 2018
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney (Dawn Raffel) at The Mantle
Come as You Are (ed. E. Kristin Anderson) at Barrelhouse
Gross Anatomy (Mara Altman) at BUST
Nothing Good Can Come From This (Kristi Coulter) at the Chicago Review of Books
This Mournable Body (Tsitsi Dangarembga) at the Masters Review
Perfect Conditions (Vanessa Blakeslee) at sinkhole
Hunting Party (Agnés Desarthe) at the Kenyon Review
July 2018
Irradiated Cities (Mariko Nagai) at the Los Angeles Review
The City of Lost Fortunes (Bryan Camp) at Locus
Echoes of Understorey (Thoraiya Dyer) at Locus
Sketchtasy (Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore) at Gertrude Press
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Dorthe Nors) at the Women’s Review of Books, vol. 35 #4 (print/PDF only)
People in the Room (Norah Lange) at the Women’s Review of Books, vol. 35 #4 (print/PDF only)
The Blurry Years (Eleanor Kriseman) at the Masters Review
New Poets of Native Nations (ed. Heid E. Erdrich) at sinkhole
June 2018
Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld (Katharine Haake) at Anomaly
The Captives (Debra Jo Immergut) at LARB
Never Anyone But You (Rupert Thomson) at the Arts Fuse
Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century (Joachim Kalka) at Cleaver
May 2018
MEM (Bethany C. Morrow) at Locus
Credo: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (eds. Rita Banerjee & Diana Norma Szokolyai) at CRAFT
The Underneath (Melanie Finn) at sinkhole
Profile/Review: Stormwarming (Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir) at Women’s Review of Books, vol. 35 #3 (print/PDF only)
So Lucky (Nicola Griffith) at the Arts Fuse
Trail of Lightning (Rebecca Roanhorse) and Deer Woman (anthology) at Anomaly
Belly Up (Rita Bullwinkel) at the LARB
April 2018
Maps Are Lines We Draw (Allison Coffelt) at Brevity
No Way Home (Tyler Wetherall) at the Arts Fuse
Things That Helped (Jessica Friedmann) at TRUE
Red Clocks (Leni Zumas) at the Guardian
Encircling 2 (Carl Frode Tiller) at LARB
Dictionary Stories (Jez Burrows) in Kolaj #22 (paper magazine only)
March 2018
Animals Eat Each Other (Elle Nash) at 3:AM
The Natashas (Yelena Moskovich) at the Masters Review
Tomb Song (Julian Herbert) at Cleaver
Silver Girl (Leslie Pietrzyk) at the Millions
January-February 2018
Kingdom of Heaven (Rosalie Morales Kearns) at VIDA
The House of Erzulie (Kirsten Imani Kasai) at the Adroit Journal
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You (Tim Kreider) at Another Chicago Magazine
Everything Here Is Beautiful (Mira T. Lee) at the Masters Review
Daughters of the Air (Anca L. Szilágyi) at Locus (print, January 2018; online, February 2018)
September-December 2017
Bruising Continents (Claudia F. Savage) at Anomaly
Imprint (Claire Sicherman) at the Wisdom Daily
Mother of All Pigs (Malu Halasa) at the Los Angeles Review
The Complete Ballet (John Haskell) at Anomaly
Afterglow (Eileen Myles) at Brevity
Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away (Alice Anderson) at Fiction Advocate
2016-May 2017
The Book of Joan (Lidia Yuknavitch) at the Rumpus
Popular Music (Kelly Schirmann) and The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib) at Angel City Review
A Bestiary (Lily Hoang) at Angel City Review