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Reviews

Birds Are Also Free to Walk | Diane Williams’s I Hear You’re Rich

By Gavin Thomson
Birds Are Also Free to Walk | Diane Williams’s <em>I Hear You’re Rich</em>
Reviews

Pure, Entertaining Thinking | Dave Marsh’s Kick out the Jams

By Sam Hockley-Smith
Pure, Entertaining Thinking | Dave Marsh’s <em>Kick out the Jams</em>
Reviews

Naked Wives and Surprising Penises | Ed Templeton’s Wires Crossed

By Kyle Beachy
Naked Wives and Surprising Penises | Ed Templeton’s <em>Wires Crossed</em>
Reviews

Master of the Minimal | Babak Lakghomi’s South

By Nathan Dragon
Master of the Minimal | Babak Lakghomi’s <em>South</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | August 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | August 2023
Interviews

Each Abyss Is Personal | A Conversation with Claudia Piñeiro

By William Boyle (Translated by Frances Riddle)
Each Abyss Is Personal | A Conversation with Claudia Piñeiro
Interviews

Follow the Fun | An Interview with Tyler Parker

By Tadhg Hoey
Follow the Fun | An Interview with Tyler Parker
Reviews

In Praise of Messy Creation | Carmen Boullosa’s The Book of Eve

By Kat Solomon
In Praise of Messy Creation | Carmen Boullosa’s <em>The Book of Eve</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | July 2023

By Jack Pendarvis
I Wake Up Streaming | July 2023
Reviews

Unsafe, Unthinkable You | B. R. Yeager’s Burn You the Fuck Alive

By Joe Koch
Unsafe, Unthinkable You | B. R. Yeager’s <em>Burn You the Fuck Alive</em>
Interviews

Ozark Noir at Its Finest | A Conversation with Eli Cranor

By Peg Cannon
Ozark Noir at Its Finest | A Conversation with Eli Cranor
Movies | Reviews

Some Movies Are Made Timeless | Scout Tafoya on John Ford

By William Boyle
Some Movies Are Made Timeless | Scout Tafoya on John Ford
Reviews

The Enlightenment of Augusto Higa Oshiro

By Federico Perelmuter
The Enlightenment of Augusto Higa Oshiro
Interviews

Show a Little Leg | A Conversation with Greg Marshall

By Lucas Schaefer
Show a Little <em>Leg</em> | A Conversation with Greg Marshall
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | June 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | June 2023
Interviews

Private Wounds as Social Memory | An Interview with Renato Cisneros

By Fionn Petch
Private Wounds as Social Memory | An Interview with Renato Cisneros
Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | To Live and Die in . . . Denver?

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | To Live and Die in . . . Denver?
Reviews

Pornographic Noir | Ian Townsend’s Purgatory

By Conor Hultman
Pornographic Noir | Ian Townsend’s <em>Purgatory</em>
Interviews | Movies

Only for the Good Guys | Talking From The Head with George Griffith

By William Boyle
Only for the Good Guys | Talking <em>From The Head</em> with George Griffith
Interviews | Movies

My First Death Threats | Talking Dogleg with Al Warren and Michael Bible

By William Boyle
My First Death Threats | Talking <em>Dogleg</em> with Al Warren and Michael Bible
Reviews

The Most Dangerous Cudgel

By Robin McLean
The Most Dangerous Cudgel
Columns | Music

Make Love in My Car | Episode 5: A Hip-Hop Higher Education

By Kendra Allen
Make Love in My Car | Episode 5: A Hip-Hop Higher Education
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | May 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | May 2023
Interviews

Telling People About the Lights | A Conversation with Matthew Vollmer

By Nathan Dragon
Telling People About the Lights | A Conversation with Matthew Vollmer
Reviews

Old South, My Ass | Dan Leach’s Dead Mediums

By Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster
Old South, My Ass | Dan Leach’s <em>Dead Mediums</em>
Music | Reviews

Two of Rap’s Great Oddballs | On Madvillainy

By Sam Hockley-Smith
Two of Rap’s Great Oddballs | On <em>Madvillainy</em>
Reviews

Stories We Don’t Want to Hear | Fernanda Melchor’s This Is Not Miami

By Cory Oldweiler
Stories We Don’t Want to Hear | Fernanda Melchor’s <em>This Is Not Miami</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | April 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | April 2023
Reviews

Reaching New Heights | Sebastián Martínez Daniell’s Two Sherpas

By Sam Carter
Reaching New Heights | Sebastián Martínez Daniell’s <em>Two Sherpas</em>
Columns | Music

The Guest List | Special Interest

The Guest List | Special Interest
Reviews

Capitalism and Culpability | Andrés Neuman’s Bariloche

By Federico Perelmuter
Capitalism and Culpability | Andrés Neuman’s <em>Bariloche</em>
Interviews

Muscles & Imagination | An Interview with Tyler Keith

By Max Hipp
Muscles & Imagination | An Interview with Tyler Keith
Interviews

Something Unseen in the Commonplace | A Conversation with Charlie Parr

By Gene Kwak
Something Unseen in the Commonplace | A Conversation with Charlie Parr
Reviews

The Noise an Object Makes | Yuri Herrera’s Ten Planets

The Noise an Object Makes | Yuri Herrera’s <em>Ten Planets</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | March 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | March 2023
Interviews

Scribes for the Darkness | An Interview with Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell

By Sarah Booker
Scribes for the Darkness | An Interview with Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell
Interviews

Desire and Its Objects | A Conversation with Madelaine Lucas

By Zach Davidson
Desire and Its Objects | A Conversation with Madelaine Lucas
Reviews

Semiotics for the Global Damned | Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao’s Funeral Parade of Roses

By Conor Hultman
Semiotics for the Global Damned | Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao’s <em>Funeral Parade of Roses</em>
Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Manu and the Snake

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Manu and the Snake
Reviews

A Fragmentary Novel that Glimmers with Light | Astrid Roemer’s On a Woman’s Madness

By Elizabeth Gonzalez James
A Fragmentary Novel that Glimmers with Light | Astrid Roemer’s <em>On a Woman’s Madness</em>
Interviews

Keeping Time at Texas Roadhouse | A Conversation with David Nutt

By Gina Nutt
Keeping Time at Texas Roadhouse | A Conversation with David Nutt
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | February 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | February 2023
Columns | Music

The Guest List | MJ Lenderman

The Guest List | MJ Lenderman
Reviews

Natural Ecstasy | Kevin Maloney’s The Red-Headed Pilgrim

By Mila Jaroniec
Natural Ecstasy | Kevin Maloney’s <em>The Red-Headed Pilgrim</em>
Music

Video Premiere: Snarlin’ Yarns | “Electric Prairie Rain”

Video Premiere: Snarlin’ Yarns | “Electric Prairie Rain”
Reviews | Sports

The Magic Trick They Will Never Get Sick of Performing | Thomas Beller’s Lost in the Game

By Burke Nixon
The Magic Trick They Will Never Get Sick of Performing | Thomas Beller’s <em>Lost in the Game</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | January 2023

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | January 2023
Reviews

The Glory of Cleaning Toilets | Paul Lafargue’s The Right to Be Lazy

By Garth Miró
The Glory of Cleaning Toilets | Paul Lafargue’s <em>The Right to Be Lazy</em>
Interviews

A Language of Nowhere | A Conversation with Juan Pablo Villalobos

By Rosalind Harvey
A Language of Nowhere | A Conversation with Juan Pablo Villalobos
Web Exclusives

10 Must-Read Books of 2022

10 Must-Read Books of 2022
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | December 2022

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | December 2022
Interviews | Music

The Ecology of a Scene | A Conversation with Lenny Kaye

By Elizabeth Nelson
The Ecology of a Scene | A Conversation with Lenny Kaye
Reviews

Notes from the Bathroom Stalls of Our Hearts | Jon Berger’s Goon Dog

By Conor Hultman
Notes from the Bathroom Stalls of Our Hearts | Jon Berger’s <em>Goon Dog</em>
Interviews

Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body | A Conversation with Christopher Cantwell

By Weldon Pless
<em>Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body</em> | A Conversation with Christopher Cantwell
Reviews

If Memory Serves | Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations

By Sam Carter
If Memory Serves | Sylvia Molloy’s <em>Dislocations</em>
Reviews

Our Eternal Debasement | Evelio Rosero’s Toño the Infallible

By Federico Perelmuter
Our Eternal Debasement | Evelio Rosero’s <em>Toño the Infallible</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | November 2022

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | November 2022
Reviews

An Epistolary Novel for the 21st Century | Elle Nash’s Gag Reflex

By Conor Hultman
An Epistolary Novel for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century | Elle Nash’s <em>Gag Reflex</em>
Reviews

An Islander with All Her Muddles | Cristina Bendek’s Salt Crystals

By Drew Broussard
An Islander with All Her Muddles | Cristina Bendek’s <em>Salt Crystals</em>
Interviews

The Mysteries of Reading and Writing | An Interview with Amina Cain

By Mark Haber
The Mysteries of Reading and Writing | An Interview with Amina Cain
Reviews

Slow Your Heart, Hold Your Breath | Hillary Leftwich’s Aura

By Mila Jaroniec
Slow Your Heart, Hold Your Breath | Hillary Leftwich’s <em>Aura</em>
Interviews

Cosmic Roots in a Hungry Land | Unearthing The Hollow Kind with Andy Davidson

By Joe Koch
Cosmic Roots in a Hungry Land | Unearthing <em>The Hollow Kind</em> with Andy Davidson
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | October 2022

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | October 2022
Interviews

Held Hostage by Truth | A Conversation with Joe Koch

By Andy Davidson
Held Hostage by Truth | A Conversation with Joe Koch
Interviews

A Productive Tension | An Interview with Kathryn Scanlan

By Zach Davidson
A Productive Tension | An Interview with Kathryn Scanlan
Reviews

A New Lodestar | The Collected Stories of Peter Christopher

By Conor Hultman
A New Lodestar | The Collected Stories of Peter Christopher
Interviews

Finding Poetry in the News | An Interview with Ashton Politanoff

By Ryan Ridge
Finding Poetry in the News | An Interview with Ashton Politanoff
Interviews

More Fun Down Here | A Conversation with Garth Miró

By Mila Jaroniec
More Fun Down Here | A Conversation with Garth Miró
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | September 2022

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | September 2022
Interviews

The Owls of Literature | An Interview with Jack Pendarvis

The Owls of Literature | An Interview with Jack Pendarvis
Columns | Music

The Guest List | The Paranoid Style

The Guest List | The Paranoid Style
Interviews

The Absurdity of Art | An Interview with Courtney Denelle

By Kimberly King Parsons
The Absurdity of Art | An Interview with Courtney Denelle
Interviews

Making Light of It | An Interview with Sadie Shorr-Parks

By Gabrielle Bates
Making Light of It | An Interview with Sadie Shorr-Parks
Interviews

Bloodlines | A Conversation with Kendra Allen

By Halle Hill
Bloodlines | A Conversation with Kendra Allen
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | August 2022

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | August 2022
Interviews

Ecstatic Boredom | A Conversation with Daryl Lim Wei Jie

By Greg Brownderville
Ecstatic Boredom | A Conversation with Daryl Lim Wei Jie
Interviews

The Phantasmagoric Code | An Interview with Ave Barrera

By Ellen Jones
The Phantasmagoric Code | An Interview with Ave Barrera
Reviews

We Only Do What We Must | Nada Alic’s Bad Thoughts

By Shy Watson
We Only Do What We Must | Nada Alic’s <em>Bad Thoughts</em>
Interviews

The Freedom to Get Weird | An Interview with David Leo Rice

By Jedidiah Ayres
The Freedom to Get Weird | An Interview with David Leo Rice
Reviews

Degraded by Time, Distorted by Perspective | Julián Fuks’s Resistance and Occupation

By Marshall Shord
Degraded by Time, Distorted by Perspective | Julián Fuks’s <em>Resistance </em> and <em>Occupation</em>
Interviews | Music

Two Places at Once | Talking Shop with Thomas Dollbaum

By Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Two Places at Once | Talking Shop with Thomas Dollbaum
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | July 2022

By Jack Pendarvis
I Wake Up Streaming | July 2022
Interviews

Moments of Uncertainty | An Interview with Katya Adaui

By Fionn Petch
Moments of Uncertainty | An Interview with Katya Adaui
Music

Transmissions from Another World | On Terry Allen’s Smokin’ the Dummy and Bloodlines

By Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Transmissions from Another World | On Terry Allen’s <em>Smokin’ the Dummy</em> and <em>Bloodlines</em>
Interviews

The Position of the Written Word | An Interview with Diamela Eltit

By Daniel Hahn
The Position of the Written Word | An Interview with Diamela Eltit
Interviews

Seeking Freefall | An Interview with Lindsay Lerman

By Nate Lippens
Seeking Freefall | An Interview with Lindsay Lerman
Music

Video Premiere: The Delines | “Pretty Perdita (Bonita Perdita)”

Video Premiere: The Delines | “Pretty Perdita (Bonita Perdita)”
Interviews

The Music of Silence | An Interview with Luis Sagasti

By Fionn Petch
The Music of Silence | An Interview with Luis Sagasti
Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Things That Must Be Done

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Things That Must Be Done
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | June 2022

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | June 2022
Interviews

You Laugh So You Don’t Blow Your Brains Out | A Conversation with Bud Smith

By Kimberly King Parsons
You Laugh So You Don’t Blow Your Brains Out | A Conversation with Bud Smith
Interviews

On Family Album | A Conversation with Gabriela Alemán

By Mary Ellen Fieweger and Dick Cluster
On <em>Family Album</em> | A Conversation with Gabriela Alemán
Interviews

Myopic, Fanatical, Absurd | A Conversation with Mark Haber

By Odie Lindsey
Myopic, Fanatical, Absurd | A Conversation with Mark Haber
Music

Tale of the Tapes | 7 Songs from DJ Screw’s Mixtape Catalog

By Lance Scott Walker
Tale of the Tapes | 7 Songs from DJ Screw’s Mixtape Catalog
Interviews

The Devil’s Most Valuable Work | An Interview with Daniel Guebel

By Jessica Sequeira
The Devil’s Most Valuable Work | An Interview with Daniel Guebel
Sports

Behold a Great Flying Man

By Kyle Beachy
Behold a Great Flying Man
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | May 2022

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | May 2022
Reviews

A Massive Living Mural | Fernando A. Flores’s Valleyesque

By David Leo Rice
A Massive Living Mural | Fernando A. Flores’s <em>Valleyesque</em>
Interviews

Un-finishing Fiction | A Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

By Sarah Booker
Un-finishing Fiction | A Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza
Reviews

A Novel That Knows What Football Means in the South

By Gabino Iglesias
A Novel That Knows What Football Means in the South

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