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Comics | Web Exclusives

Conversations with Don DeLillo and Other Conversations

By Drew Lerman
Conversations with Don DeLillo and Other Conversations
Music | Podcasts

Known Associates | Episode 7: Amanda Petrusich

By Elizabeth Nelson
Known Associates | Episode 7: Amanda Petrusich
Music | Podcasts

Known Associates | Episode 6: Graham Parker

By Elizabeth Nelson
Known Associates | Episode 6: Graham Parker
Reviews

Way, Way Above the Rim

By Liam Baranauskas
Way, Way Above the Rim
Podcasts

Known Associates | Episode 5: Jason P. Woodbury

By Elizabeth Nelson
Known Associates | Episode 5: Jason P. Woodbury
Interviews | Music | Podcasts

Known Associates | Episode 4: Ann Powers

By Elizabeth Nelson
Known Associates | Episode 4: Ann Powers
Reviews

The Lives That Cotton Made

By Caroline Tracey
The Lives That Cotton Made
Web Exclusives

Track Premiere | Elegant Bachelors

By Elizabeth Nelson
Track Premiere | Elegant Bachelors
Interviews | Music | Podcasts

Known Associates | Episode 3: Jessica Hopper

By Elizabeth Nelson
Known Associates | Episode 3: Jessica Hopper
Web Exclusives

The 24 Days of Xmas

By Kevin Sampsell
<em>The 24 Days of Xmas</em>
Web Exclusives

Track Premiere | White Wine Whatever

By Elizabeth Nelson
Track Premiere | White Wine Whatever
Interviews | Music | Podcasts

Known Associates | Episode 2: Patterson Hood

By Elizabeth Nelson
Known Associates | Episode 2: Patterson Hood
Web Exclusives

Track Premiere | The Paranoid Style’s “It’s a Dog’s Breakfast”

By Elizabeth Nelson
Track Premiere | The Paranoid Style’s “It’s a Dog’s Breakfast”
Interviews | Music | Podcasts

Known Associates | Episode 1: Craig Finn

By Elizabeth Nelson
Known Associates | Episode 1: Craig Finn
Columns | Movies | Music

Needle Drops | Peter Gabriel’s “Blood of Eden”

By Jason P. Woodbury
Needle Drops | Peter Gabriel’s “Blood of Eden”
Reviews

Ratcatching in the Ruins

By Travis Woods
Ratcatching in the Ruins
Reviews

Blessed Are the Composers | Rereading Frank Stanford in the Light of Truth

By Elijah Burrell
Blessed Are the Composers | Rereading Frank Stanford in the Light of Truth
Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Exploding Piston Inevitable

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Exploding Piston Inevitable
Interviews

Traducir las palabras talismánicas de Frank Stanford | Una conversación con Patricio Ferrari

By Sylvia Georgina Estrada
Traducir las palabras talismánicas de Frank Stanford | Una conversación con Patricio Ferrari
Interviews

Taxonomizing a New Genre | The High Lonesome

By Elizabeth Nelson
Taxonomizing a New Genre | The High Lonesome
Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Watching the Penguins Play

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Watching the Penguins Play
Web Exclusives

10 Must-Read Books of 2024

10 Must-Read Books of 2024
Reviews

President-to-Be as Flâneur, New Orleans as Bolt-hole, Novelist as History’s Gap Filler

By J. R. Ramakrishnan
President-to-Be as Flâneur, New Orleans as Bolt-hole, Novelist as History’s Gap Filler
Reviews

Incubator Noir | Eli Cranor’s Broiler

By Travis Woods
Incubator Noir | Eli Cranor’s <em>Broiler</em>
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Thou

By Jimmy Cajoleas
The Guest List | Thou
Reviews

No Good Nights | Brian Evenson’s Good Night, Sleep Tight

By Andy Davidson
No Good Nights | Brian Evenson’s <em>Good Night, Sleep Tight</em
Reviews

The Sweetest Flowers from the Void | Gianni Washington’s Flowers from the Void

By R. J. Joseph
The Sweetest Flowers from the Void | Gianni Washington’s <em>Flowers from the Void</em>
Reviews

Camilla Grudova’s Technicolor Freak Shows

By R. M. N. Landry
Camilla Grudova’s Technicolor Freak Shows
Interviews

Latin American Horror Stories | An Interview with Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, & Noelle de la Paz

By Jimmy Cajoleas
Latin American Horror Stories | An Interview with Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, & Noelle de la Paz
Reviews

Total Disgust Achieved | Emma E. Murray’s Crushing Snails

By Brandi Gaspard
Total Disgust Achieved | Emma E. Murray’s <em>Crushing Snails</em>
Reviews

The Endless Horrors of an Unknowable Mind | Nathan Ballingrud’s Crypt of the Moon Spider

By Colin Sneed
The Endless Horrors of an Unknowable Mind | Nathan Ballingrud’s <em>Crypt of the Moon Spider</em>
Reviews

A Unique Example of Flat-Out Genius | Machado de Assis’s Quincas Borba

By Federico Perelmuter
A Unique Example of Flat-Out Genius | Machado de Assis’s <em>Quincas Borba</em>
Reviews

The Febrile Imagination of Andrés Neuman

By Cory Oldweiler
The Febrile Imagination of Andrés Neuman
Reviews

Motherhood Is a Life Sentence | Claudia Piñeiro’s Time of the Flies

By Lori Feathers
Motherhood Is a Life Sentence | Claudia Piñeiro’s <em>Time of the Flies</em>
Web Exclusives

How to Read Kafka

By Mark Haber
How to Read Kafka
Reviews

The Sense of Being a Boomerang | Daniel Saldaña París’s Planes Flying over a Monster

By Caroline Tracey
The Sense of Being a Boomerang | Daniel Saldaña París’s <em>Planes Flying over a Monster</em>
Interviews

Let’s Call It Dissident | An Interview with Gabriela Wiener

By Sylvia Georgina Estrada (Translated by Julia Sanches)
Let’s Call It Dissident | An Interview with Gabriela Wiener
Reviews

Jillian Luft’s Modern Romance

By Shy Watson
Jillian Luft’s Modern Romance
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Tim Kinsella

By Jimmy Cajoleas
The Guest List | Tim Kinsella
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | August 2024

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | August 2024
Reviews

Remixing the Dead | Mateo García Elizondo’s Last Date in El Zapotal

By Atenea Cruz (Translated by Ellen Jones)
Remixing the Dead | Mateo García Elizondo’s <em>Last Date in El Zapotal</em>
Reviews

América para El Americano

By Hiram Ruvalcaba
América para <em>El Americano</em>
Reviews

The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell

By Sam Hockley-Smith
The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell
Reviews

Hell Is a Teenage Girl | Juliet Escoria’s You Are the Snake

By Mila Jaroniec
Hell Is a Teenage Girl | Juliet Escoria’s <em>You Are the Snake</em>
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Dehd

By Emily McBride
The Guest List | Dehd
Reviews

Animated Profundity | Kit Schluter’s Cartoons

By Ryan Ridge
Animated Profundity | Kit Schluter’s <em>Cartoons</em>
Reviews

Abandoned Dogs | Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s Simpatía

By Michael Schaub
Abandoned Dogs | Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s <em>Simpatía</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | July 2024

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | July 2024
Interviews

Radical Geometry | A Conversation with José Vadi

By Kyle Beachy
Radical Geometry | A Conversation with José Vadi
Reviews

Brenda Navarro | Two Voices in the Dark

By Julián Herbert (Translated by Robin Myers)
Brenda Navarro | Two Voices in the Dark
Reviews

Copi’s Queens

By Federico Perelmuter
Copi’s Queens
Reviews

Machinic, Unloving, Graceless | Peter Vack’s Sillyboy

By Conor Hultman
Machinic, Unloving, Graceless | Peter Vack’s <em>Sillyboy</em>
Columns | Music

Hay que venir al sur | Cu-Cu-Cu Cumbia!

By Richard Villegas
Hay que venir al sur | Cu-Cu-Cu Cumbia!
Reviews

A Cure for Loneliness | Charlee Dyroff’s Loneliness and Company

By Drew Broussard
A Cure for Loneliness | Charlee Dyroff’s <em>Loneliness and Company</em>
Reviews

A Gothic Fable of Female Revenge | Layla Martínez’s Woodworm

By Cory Oldweiler
A Gothic Fable of Female Revenge | Layla Martínez’s <em>Woodworm</em>
Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Jalen Brunson Broke His Hand

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Jalen Brunson Broke His Hand
Essays | Web Exclusives

A Ghost of a Chance | A Translator’s Note in Memory of Paul Auster

By Alex Andriesse
A Ghost of a Chance | A Translator’s Note in Memory of Paul Auster
Reviews

The Mind of All of Us | Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s American Abductions

By Wilson McBee
The Mind of All of Us | Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s <em>American Abductions</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | May 2024

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | May 2024
Reviews

A Humble Tribute to My Land | Selva Almada’s Not a River

By Cory Oldweiler
A Humble Tribute to My Land | Selva Almada’s <em>Not a River</em>
Interviews

Heavy Metal Magical Realism | A Conversation with Max Hipp

By Tyler Keith
Heavy Metal Magical Realism | A Conversation with Max Hipp
Reviews

A Kind of Lostness | Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming

By Burke Nixon
A Kind of Lostness | Clemens Meyer’s <em>While We Were Dreaming</em>
Reviews

Perfectly Imperfect | Two Books for Analog Aficionados

By Sam Hockley-Smith
Perfectly Imperfect | Two Books for Analog Aficionados
Interviews

Breaking the Quiet | An Interview with Elijah Burrell

By Sadie Shorr-Parks
Breaking the Quiet | An Interview with Elijah Burrell
Reviews

Trust in the Whispers of the Universe and Persevere | Mallory Smart’s I Keep My Visions to Myself

By Mila Jaroniec
Trust in the Whispers of the Universe and Persevere | Mallory Smart’s <em>I Keep My Visions to Myself</em>
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Mary Timony

By Jimmy Cajoleas
The Guest List | Mary Timony
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | March 2024

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | March 2024
Reviews

Lost in a Desert Fever Dream | Clyo Mendoza’s Fury

By Cory Oldweiler
Lost in a Desert Fever Dream | Clyo Mendoza’s <em>Fury</em>
Web Exclusives

Cover Reveal | Mark Haber’s Lesser Ruins

Cover Reveal | Mark Haber’s <em>Lesser Ruins</em>
Reviews

A Neo-Baroque Carnival | Sergio Pitol’s Taming the Divine Heron

By Daniel Saldaña París
A Neo-Baroque Carnival | Sergio Pitol’s <em>Taming the Divine Heron</em>
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band

By Jimmy Cajoleas
The Guest List | Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Reviews

Art Monster | Margarita García Robayo’s The Delivery

By Kat Solomon
Art Monster | Margarita García Robayo’s <em>The Delivery</em>
Reviews

A New Voice in the Worldwide Weird | Bernardo Esquinca’s The Secret Life of Insects

By Adrian Van Young
A New Voice in the Worldwide Weird | Bernardo Esquinca’s <em>The Secret Life of Insects</em>
Interviews | Music

Sit with Me on the Edges | Talking Present Tense and Prodigal with Andrew Bryant

By William Boyle
Sit with Me on the Edges | Talking <em>Present Tense</em> and <em>Prodigal</em> with Andrew Bryant
Columns | Music

Hay que venir al sur | Yeehaw Sounds, en español!

By Richard Villegas
Hay que venir al sur | Yeehaw Sounds, en español!
Reviews

We See What We Want to See | Brian Allen Carr’s Bad Foundations

By Robert Warf
We See What We Want to See | Brian Allen Carr’s <em>Bad Foundations</em>
Reviews

Her Story Must Be Told | Patrícia Melo’s The Simple Art of Killing

By Ariel Ramchandani
Her Story Must Be Told | Patrícia Melo’s The Simple Art of Killing
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | January 2024

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | January 2024
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Ratboys

By Jimmy Cajoleas
The Guest List | Ratboys
Interviews

Talking Rumble through the Dark and Desperation Road with Michael Farris Smith

By William Boyle
Talking <em>Rumble through the Dark</em> and <em>Desperation Road</em> with Michael Farris Smith
Reviews

Weaving a Story of Friendship, Stitch by Stitch | Jazmina Barrera’s Cross-Stitch

By Jude Burke-Lewis
Weaving a Story of Friendship, Stitch by Stitch | Jazmina Barrera’s <em>Cross-Stitch</em>
Reviews

Liberation, Freedom, and Goodness | Sasha Frere Jones’s Earlier

By Sam Hockley-Smith
Liberation, Freedom, and Goodness | Sasha Frere Jones’s <em>Earlier</em>
Reviews

The Absence of Choice | Sara Gallardo’s January

By Cory Oldweiler
The Absence of Choice | Sara Gallardo’s <em>January</em>
Web Exclusives

10 Must-Read Books of 2023

10 Must-Read Books of 2023
Reviews

Dark Hilarity | Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses

By Carmen Boullosa (Translated by Samantha Schnee)
Dark Hilarity | Luis Felipe Fabre’s <em>Recital of the Dark Verses</em
Interviews | Music

“Print the Legend” | A Conversation with Elizabeth Nelson and Patterson Hood

By Elizabeth Nelson
“Print the Legend” | A Conversation with Elizabeth Nelson and Patterson Hood
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | November 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | November 2023
Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Out There, There Is No Pain

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Out There, There Is No Pain
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Buck Meek

By Jimmy Cajoleas
The Guest List | Buck Meek
Interviews

Writing Is Like Drowning | An Interview with Mónica Ojeda

By María Fernanda Ampuero (Translated by Frances Riddle)
Writing Is Like Drowning | An Interview with Mónica Ojeda
Reviews

Teaching a Wound to Speak | Tiffany Morris’s Green Fuse Burning

By Joe Koch
Teaching a Wound to Speak | Tiffany Morris’s <em>Green Fuse Burning</em>
Reviews

How Do You Desire to Be Haunted? | Adrian Van Young’s Midnight Self

By Corey Farrenkopf
How Do You Desire to Be Haunted? | Adrian Van Young’s <em>Midnight Self</em>
Reviews

A Wild Danse Macabre | Tex Gresham’s Violent Candy

By Conor Hultman
A Wild Danse Macabre | Tex Gresham’s <em>Violent Candy</em>
Reviews

Tales of Sex and Death | In Celebration of Lisa Tuttle

By Lisa Kröger
Tales of Sex and Death | In Celebration of Lisa Tuttle
Reviews

The Modern-Day Family in Bleak, Bloody Freefall | Max Booth III’s Abnormal Statistics

By Adrian Van Young
The Modern-Day Family in Bleak, Bloody Freefall | Max Booth III’s <em>Abnormal Statistics</em>
Reviews

The Horror of the Quotidian | Giovanna Rivero’s Fresh Dirt from the Grave

By Sam Krieg
The Horror of the Quotidian | Giovanna Rivero’s <em>Fresh Dirt from the Grave</em>
Reviews

Of Monsters and Women | Aurora Venturini’s Cousins

By Jude Burke-Lewis
Of Monsters and Women | Aurora Venturini’s <em>Cousins</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | September 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | September 2023
Interviews

The Point Is Not in Plot | A Conversation with Halle Hill

By Kendra Allen
The Point Is Not in Plot | A Conversation with Halle Hill
Reviews

What Was Found and Who Was Lost | Drew Buxton’s So Much Heart

By Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster
What Was Found and Who Was Lost | Drew Buxton’s <em>So Much Heart</em>

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