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A Rare Breed of Listener | Ben Ratliff’s Run the Song

A Rare Breed of Listener | Ben Ratliff’s <em>Run the Song</em>
Reviews

A Couple without Qualities | Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection

A Couple without Qualities | Vincenzo Latronico’s <em>Perfection</em>
sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Exploding Piston Inevitable

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Exploding Piston Inevitable
Reviews

A Fresh Blend of Southern Gothic Weirdness | Julia Elliott’s Hellions

A Fresh Blend of Southern Gothic Weirdness | Julia Elliott’s <em>Hellions</em>
music

The Guest List | Caroline Says

The Guest List | Caroline Says
Reviews

The Inexorable Logic of the Witch Hunt | Eduardo Sangarcía’s The Trial of Anna Thalberg

The Inexorable Logic of the Witch Hunt | Eduardo Sangarcía’s <em>The Trial of Anna Thalberg </em>
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | April 2025

I Wake Up Streaming | April 2025
music

The Guest List | Great Grandpa

The Guest List | Great Grandpa
Reviews

Desperate Searchers | Andrés Felipe Solano’s Gloria

Desperate Searchers | Andrés Felipe Solano’s <em>Gloria</em>
Interviews

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

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

A Porous Exchange of Mutual Creation | A Conversation with Nate Lippens

A Porous Exchange of Mutual Creation | A Conversation with Nate Lippens
Reviews

The Voices of Adriana | The Latest Novel by Elvira Navarro

<em>The Voices of Adriana</em> | The Latest Novel by Elvira Navarro
Interviews

Taxonomizing a New Genre | The High Lonesome

Taxonomizing a New Genre | The High Lonesome
Reviews

A Bonkers Artist Heart | Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne

A Bonkers Artist Heart | Emmalea Russo’s <em>Vivienne</em>
Reviews

Words Fail Me | Nathan Dragon’s The Champ

Words Fail Me | Nathan Dragon’s <em>The Champ</em>
Reviews

Human Highlight Reels | Sean Ennis’s Hope and Wild Panic

Human Highlight Reels | Sean Ennis’s <em>Hope and Wild Panic</em>
Interviews

A Drug Story Is Never Just About Drugs | An Interview with Nick Rees Gardner

A Drug Story Is Never Just About Drugs | An Interview with Nick Rees Gardner
sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Watching the Penguins Play

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Watching the Penguins Play
Reviews

The Incompetence of a Well-Read Man | Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest Is Silence

The Incompetence of a Well-Read Man | Augusto Monterroso’s <em>The Rest Is Silence</em>
music

The Guest List | Dummy

The Guest List | Dummy
Reviews

Nightmares in the Language of Kitsch | David Leo Rice’s The Berlin Wall

Nightmares in the Language of Kitsch | David Leo Rice’s <em>The Berlin Wall</em>
Reviews

Metafiction, Magical Realism, & Mourning

Metafiction, Magical Realism, & Mourning
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | December 2024

I Wake Up Streaming | December 2024
Web Exclusives

10 Must-Read Books of 2024

10 Must-Read Books of 2024
Reviews

No hay tierras prometidas | Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized

No hay tierras prometidas | Julia Kornberg’s <em>Berlin Atomized</em>
music

The Guest List | Wand

The Guest List | Wand
Reviews

No Room of One’s Own | Dahlia de la Cerda’s Reservoir Bitches

No Room of One’s Own | Dahlia de la Cerda’s <em>Reservoir Bitches</em>
Reviews

Life Is Made Up of Looking | Federico Falco’s The Plains

Life Is Made Up of Looking | Federico Falco’s <em>The Plains</em>
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | November 2024

I Wake Up Streaming | November 2024
Reviews

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

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

Incubator Noir | Eli Cranor’s Broiler

Incubator Noir | Eli Cranor’s <em>Broiler</em>
music

The Guest List | Thou

The Guest List | Thou
Reviews

No Good Nights

No Good Nights
Reviews

The Sweetest Flowers from the Void

The Sweetest Flowers from the Void
Reviews

Camilla Grudova’s Technicolor Freak Shows

Camilla Grudova’s Technicolor Freak Shows
Interviews

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

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

Total Disgust Achieved

Total Disgust Achieved
Reviews

The Endless Horrors of an Unknowable Mind

The Endless Horrors of an Unknowable Mind
Reviews

A Unique Example of Flat-Out Genius

A Unique Example of Flat-Out Genius
Reviews

The Febrile Imagination of Andrés Neuman

The Febrile Imagination of Andrés Neuman
Reviews

Motherhood Is a Life Sentence

Motherhood Is a Life Sentence
Web Exclusives

How to Read Kafka

How to Read Kafka
Reviews

The Sense of Being a Boomerang

The Sense of Being a Boomerang
Interviews

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

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

Jillian Luft’s Modern Romance

Jillian Luft’s Modern Romance
music

The Guest List | Tim Kinsella

The Guest List | Tim Kinsella
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | August 2024

I Wake Up Streaming | August 2024
Reviews

Remixing the Dead

Remixing the Dead
Reviews

América para El Americano

América para <em>El Americano</em>
Reviews

The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell

The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell
Reviews

Hell Is a Teenage Girl

Hell Is a Teenage Girl
music

The Guest List | Dehd

The Guest List | Dehd
Reviews

Animated Profundity

Animated Profundity
Reviews

Abandoned Dogs

Abandoned Dogs
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | July 2024

I Wake Up Streaming | July 2024
Interviews

Radical Geometry | A Conversation with José Vadi

Radical Geometry | A Conversation with José Vadi
Reviews

Brenda Navarro | Two Voices in the Dark

Brenda Navarro | Two Voices in the Dark
Reviews

Copi’s Queens

Copi’s Queens
Reviews

Machinic, Unloving, Graceless

Machinic, Unloving, Graceless
music

Hay Que Venir al Sur | Cu-Cu-Cu Cumbia!

Hay Que Venir al Sur | Cu-Cu-Cu Cumbia!
Reviews

A Cure for Loneliness

A Cure for Loneliness
Reviews

A Gothic Fable of Female Revenge

A Gothic Fable of Female Revenge
sports

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

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

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

The Mind of All of Us

The Mind of All of Us
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | May 2024

I Wake Up Streaming | May 2024
Reviews

A Humble Tribute to My Land

A Humble Tribute to My Land
Interviews

Heavy Metal Magical Realism | A Conversation with Max Hipp

Heavy Metal Magical Realism | A Conversation with Max Hipp
Reviews

A Kind of Lostness

A Kind of Lostness
Reviews

Perfectly Imperfect | Two Books for Analog Aficionados

Perfectly Imperfect | Two Books for Analog Aficionados
Interviews

Breaking the Quiet | An Interview with Elijah Burrell

Breaking the Quiet | An Interview with Elijah Burrell
Reviews

Trust in the Whispers of the Universe and Persevere

Trust in the Whispers of the Universe and Persevere
music

The Guest List | Mary Timony

The Guest List | Mary Timony
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | March 2024

I Wake Up Streaming | March 2024
Reviews

Lost in a Desert Fever Dream

Lost in a Desert Fever Dream
Web Exclusives

Cover Reveal | Mark Haber’s Lesser Ruins

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

A Neo-Baroque Carnival

A Neo-Baroque Carnival
music

The Guest List | Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band

The Guest List | Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Reviews

Art Monster

Art Monster
Reviews

A New Voice in the Worldwide Weird

A New Voice in the Worldwide Weird
Interviews

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

Sit with Me on the Edges | Talking <em>Present Tense</em> and <em>Prodigal</em> with Andrew Bryant
music

Hay Que Venir al Sur | Yeehaw Sounds, en español!

Hay Que Venir al Sur | Yeehaw Sounds, en español!
Reviews

We See What We Want to See

We See What We Want to See
Reviews

Her Story Must Be Told

Her Story Must Be Told
Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | January 2024

I Wake Up Streaming | January 2024
music

The Guest List | Ratboys

The Guest List | Ratboys
Interviews

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

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

Weaving a Story of Friendship, Stitch by Stitch
Reviews

Liberation, Freedom, and Goodness

Liberation, Freedom, and Goodness
Reviews

The Absence of Choice

The Absence of Choice
Web Exclusives

10 Must-Read Books of 2023

10 Must-Read Books of 2023
Reviews

Dark Hilarity

Dark Hilarity
Interviews

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

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

I Wake Up Streaming | November 2023

I Wake Up Streaming | November 2023
sports

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

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

The Guest List | Buck Meek

The Guest List | Buck Meek
Interviews

Writing Is Like Drowning | An Interview with Mónica Ojeda

Writing Is Like Drowning | An Interview with Mónica Ojeda
Reviews

Teaching a Wound to Speak

Teaching a Wound to Speak
Reviews

How Do You Desire to Be Haunted?

How Do You Desire to Be Haunted?
Reviews

A Wild Danse Macabre

A Wild Danse Macabre

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