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Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | September 2020

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | September 2020
Interviews

Illuminated Manuscripts | An Interview with Fowzia Karimi

By Merritt Tierce
Illuminated Manuscripts | An Interview with Fowzia Karimi
Interviews

Small Acts of Life | A Conversation with Courtney Marie Andrews

By William Boyle
Small Acts of Life | A Conversation with Courtney Marie Andrews
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | August 2020

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | August 2020
Web Exclusives

Bitches Be Repressed

By Kendra Allen
Bitches Be Repressed
Interviews

The Fish That Can’t Escape the Pond | An Interview with Odie Lindsey

By Mary Miller
The Fish That Can’t Escape the Pond | An Interview with Odie Lindsey
Web Exclusives

Misanthropy Has Its Perks | On Pan by Knut Hamsun

By Gavin Thomson
Misanthropy Has Its Perks | On <em>Pan</em> by Knut Hamsun
Reviews

The Life of a Blackguard | Graciliano Ramos‘s São Bernardo

By Marshall Shord
The Life of a Blackguard | Graciliano Ramos‘s <em>São Bernardo</em>
Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | July 2020

By William Boyle
I Wake Up Streaming | July 2020
Music

Video Premiere | Snarlin’ Yarns: “Don’t Go Fishin’”

Video Premiere | Snarlin’ Yarns: “Don’t Go Fishin’”
Web Exclusives

Blahblahblah | Recent Stories by Rebecca Curtis

By Gavin Thomson
Blahblahblah | Recent Stories by Rebecca Curtis
Interviews

Magical Connection to the Land | A Conversation with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

By Jimmy Cajoleas
Magical Connection to the Land | A Conversation with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Interviews

Liberated Energy | An Interview with Juan Cárdenas

By Lizzie Davis
Liberated Energy | An Interview with Juan Cárdenas
Interviews

Down the Hatch | Barstool Chats with Hosho McCreesh

By Ross Nervig
Down the Hatch | Barstool Chats with Hosho McCreesh
Interviews

Tectonic Punch Lines | A Conversation with Ryan Ridge

By Abraham Smith
Tectonic Punch Lines | A Conversation with Ryan Ridge
Reviews

A Stylish Blend of Comedy and Crime | Juan Pablo Villalobos’s I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me

By Robert Rea
A Stylish Blend of Comedy and Crime | Juan Pablo Villalobos’s <em>I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me</em>
Interviews

Kaleidoscopic (Re)Presentations | A Conversation with Mónica Ramón Ríos

By Robin Myers
Kaleidoscopic (Re)Presentations | A Conversation with Mónica Ramón Ríos
Reviews

Delicious Sentences | Kathryn Scanlan’s The Dominant Animal

By Wilson McBee
Delicious Sentences | Kathryn Scanlan’s <em>The Dominant Animal</em>
Interviews

La Realidad Méxicana | An Interview with Fernanda Melchor

By Sophie Hughes
La Realidad Méxicana | An Interview with Fernanda Melchor
Music

SwR Presents | A Soundtrack for City of Margins

By Elizabeth Nelson
<em>SwR</em> Presents | A Soundtrack for <em>City of Margins</em>
Interviews

A Perpetual State of Half-Sleep | An Interview with Troy James Weaver

By Wilson McBee
A Perpetual State of Half-Sleep | An Interview with Troy James Weaver
Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | The Sacred Geometry of Kyle Lowry

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | The Sacred Geometry of Kyle Lowry
Reviews

A Master Chronicler of Minimum-Wage Living | Sam Pink’s The Ice Cream Man & Other Stories

By Gabino Iglesias
A Master Chronicler of Minimum-Wage Living | Sam Pink’s <em>The Ice Cream Man & Other Stories</em>
Interviews

Ghosts in My Back Seat | An Afternoon with Lee Durkee

By Mary Miller
Ghosts in My Back Seat | An Afternoon with Lee Durkee
Interviews

Play Ball! | An Interview with Emily Nemens

By Robert Rea
Play Ball! | An Interview with Emily Nemens
Movies

Pain and Glory | A Film by Pedro Almodóvar

By Wilson McBee
<em>Pain and Glory</em> | A Film by Pedro Almodóvar
Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | A Song for Manute Bol

By Liam Baranauskas
Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | A Song for Manute Bol
Interviews

The Mind’s Ear | An Interview with Gary Lutz

By Kimberly King Parsons
The Mind’s Ear | An Interview with Gary Lutz
Reviews

Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown

By Odie Lindsey
<em>Tiny Love</em>: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown
Web Exclusives

10 Must-Read Books of 2019

10 Must-Read Books of 2019
Reviews

The Perennial Threat of a New Virus | Rodrigo Márquez Tizano’s Jakarta

By Gabino Iglesias
The Perennial Threat of a New Virus | Rodrigo Márquez Tizano’s <em>Jakarta</em>
Reviews

A New Chapter in the Palomar Mythos | Gilbert Hernandez’s Maria M.

By Robert Rea
A New Chapter in the Palomar Mythos | Gilbert Hernandez’s <em>Maria M.</em>
Interviews

High on Wine | An Interview with Barry Hannah

By Greg Brownderville
High on Wine | An Interview with Barry Hannah
Interviews

Death Skulking Everywhere | An Interview with Mark Haber

By Wilson McBee
Death Skulking Everywhere | An Interview with Mark Haber
Interviews

Ruminative Textures | A Conversation with Sergio Chejfec

By Heather Cleary
Ruminative Textures | A Conversation with Sergio Chejfec
Reviews

A Quirky Scandinavian Master | Dag Solstad’s Professor Andersen’s Night

By Wilson McBee
A Quirky Scandinavian Master | Dag Solstad’s <em>Professor Andersen’s Night</em>
Interviews

Fuckups Are My People | An Interview with Kimberly King Parsons

By Robert Rea
Fuckups Are My People | An Interview with Kimberly King Parsons
Interviews

The Line Between Beauty & Violence | An Interview with Alia Trabucco Zerán

By Sophie Hughes
The Line Between Beauty & Violence | An Interview with Alia Trabucco Zerán
Music

Musical Jumper Cables| A Conversation with The Paranoid Style’s Elizabeth Nelson

By Owen King
Musical Jumper Cables| A Conversation with The Paranoid Style’s Elizabeth Nelson
Interviews

20 Security Questions for Mary Miller & Louis McDonald, Jr.

By Odie Lindsey
20 Security Questions for Mary Miller & Louis McDonald, Jr.
Interviews

Music Is the Best Propaganda | An Interview with Carlos Labbé

By Wilson McBee (Translated by Will Vanderhyden)
Music Is the Best Propaganda | An Interview with Carlos Labbé
Interviews

Talking Frontera Fiction | A Conversation with Fernando A. Flores

By Gabino Iglesias
Talking Frontera Fiction | A Conversation with Fernando A. Flores
Interviews

Grand & Granular | A Conversation with Don Winslow

By William Boyle
Grand & Granular | A Conversation with Don Winslow
Reviews

High End Science Fiction | Pola Oloixarac’s Dark Constellations

By Robert Rea
High End Science Fiction | Pola Oloixarac’s <em>Dark Constellations</em>
Reviews

A Uniquely Enchanting Voice | María Gainza’s Optic Nerve

By Wilson McBee
A Uniquely Enchanting Voice | María Gainza’s <em>Optic Nerve</em>
Interviews

Facing Down Old Ghosts | An Interview with William Boyle

By Gabino Iglesias
Facing Down Old Ghosts | An Interview with William Boyle
Interviews

Reckoning with Reality | An Interview with Chloe Aridjis

By Wilson McBee
Reckoning with Reality | An Interview with Chloe Aridjis
Reviews

A Strange Soup of Fact and Fiction | Sergio Pitol’s Mephisto’s Waltz: Selected Short Stories

By Robert Rea
A Strange Soup of Fact and Fiction | Sergio Pitol’s <em>Mephisto’s Waltz: Selected Short Stories</em>
Web Exclusives

Seven Sundays: Flash Fiction by Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth

<em>Seven Sundays</em>: Flash Fiction by Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth
Reviews

A Biting Portrait of the 21st Century | Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex

By Wilson McBee
A Biting Portrait of the 21st Century | Virginie Despentes’s <em>Vernon Subutex</em>
Reviews

Highly Compressed Horror | Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest & Other Stories

By Robert Rea
Highly Compressed Horror | Amparo Dávila’s <em>The Houseguest & Other Stories</em>
Web Exclusives

The Last Light of the Levee Camp: Frank Stanford Revisited

By Eli Burrell
The Last Light of the Levee Camp: Frank Stanford Revisited
Reviews

A Digital Native in an Offline Land | Brian Phillips’sImpossible Owls

By Robert Rea
A Digital Native in an Offline Land | Brian Phillips’s<em>Impossible Owls</em>

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