Wait With Us: Review of The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga — Benjamin Woodard
This is a powerful, compassionate story that refuses to rest or shuffle off into the murk of the mind. It exists so that we never forget.
View ArticleBody in Rebellion | Review of Sam Savage’s Zero Gravity: Collected Poems...
His poems abundantly deserve their afterlife. ---David Wojahn
View ArticleSome Schemes Shouldn’t Work But Do: The Poetry of Karen Solie — David Wojahn
Reminiscent of the poems of Berryman, Lowell, and Vallejo.
View ArticleForever an Unknown Country: Review of Quiet Creature on the Corner by João...
A spare & modestly surreal tale.
View ArticleThe Real Thing Was Quite Homely: Review of White Sands by Geoff Dyer — Jason...
Restless, humorous, shamelessly casual...
View ArticleA Master Set Loose in a Small Space: Review of Thomas Bernhard’s Goethe Dies...
A darkly comic genius.
View ArticleWhat Lies Beneath: Review of Dorthe Nors’ So Much For Winter — Jeff Bursey
Despair, grief, family conflicts, aesthetic pursuits, and the mundane.
View ArticleFat for Art’s Sake: Review of Benjamin Hale’s The Fat Artist — Mark Sampson
Sharp and gripping, artful and devastating. The post Fat for Art’s Sake: Review of Benjamin Hale’s The Fat Artist — Mark Sampson appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleColorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously: Review of Jung Young Moon’s Vaseline...
Meditative, challenging, narratively haywire and comic…the thoughts and memories of a man whose life for some time now “has been a long and difficult and tedious yet pleasant struggle against realism.”...
View ArticleA Very Funny Novel: Eric Dupont’s Life in the Court of Matane — Joseph Schreiber
A bold effort to stuff in everything including the kitchen sink. The post A Very Funny Novel: Eric Dupont’s Life in the Court of Matane — Joseph Schreiber appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleA Dubious Boy: A Review of Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet—Jason DeYoung
I don’t believe I’ve ever come away from one of Ducornet’s novels uninspired. The post A Dubious Boy: A Review of Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet—Jason DeYoung appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleThe Fatal Problem | Review of Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry — Carolyn Ogburn
The fatal problem with poetry: poems. The post The Fatal Problem | Review of Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry — Carolyn Ogburn appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleHouse of Lunatics | Review of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador by...
A blistering novella. The post House of Lunatics | Review of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador by Horacio Castellanos Moya — Benjamin Woodard appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleThe Geometry Of Breaking Up: Review Of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Naked —...
Some couples are always breaking up and getting back together. Their love says no, says yes, sometimes in the same breath. The post The Geometry Of Breaking Up: Review Of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of Civil War: Review of Black Bread by Emili Teixidor — Joseph...
The young woman who reportedly went crazy after seeing her boyfriend executed before her eyes and now runs naked through the woods. The post In the Shadow of Civil War: Review of Black Bread by Emili...
View ArticleThe Inexpressible Moment: Review of Garden Time by W. S. Merwin — Allan Cooper
Like Han Shan, the Chinese recluse poet, he faithfully tends the garden of compassion and sudden awareness that is inside all of us. The post The Inexpressible Moment: Review of Garden Time by W. S....
View ArticleGreat Expectations: Review of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto — Frank Richardson
America existed for no one if not for me, but it existed only in my needs, my desires, and my fears. ---from Zama The post Great Expectations: Review of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto — Frank Richardson...
View ArticleThe Flat Third Dimension: Matthew Olzmann’s Contradictions in the Design —...
A prosaic first-person style, too indifferent to metre to even be considered free verse. The post The Flat Third Dimension: Matthew Olzmann’s Contradictions in the Design — Patrick O’Reilly appeared...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Journey : Review of Melanie Finn’s The Gloaming — Mark Sampson
Exhilarating and humbling to see a writer take a standard formula and subvert it so thoroughly, so brazenly, so originally. The post Pilgrim’s Journey : Review of Melanie Finn’s The Gloaming — Mark...
View ArticleMemory Dance: Review of Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History — Frank...
The Angel of History tasks us with the necessity of facing our memories, even the most painful ones, for to neglect them is to surrender to Death. The post Memory Dance: Review of Rabih Alameddine’s...
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