Reviews

Review: Steffan Triplett’s CONSTRAINTS

How does one play with restrictions and limits to say something fresh and urgent, much less find joy? Winson Law discusses and reviews Steffan Triplett’s creative nonfiction chapbook, CONSTRAINTS.

Love in Their Own Ways: A Review of THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS by Christina Vo

Christina Vo’s new memoir, THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, explores how that path towards healing and self-love is never direct. 

The Memory Ruins: On Nathalie Handal’s Volo

Handal collapses the borders between surrealism and realism, the cinematic and the ordinary. And the use of repetition amplifies her global beats.

A Contemplation on Sorrow and Loss: A Review of WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER by Myriam J.A. Chancy

In August of 2021, I visited my place of birth, the Dominican Republic. A couple…

Review: Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom: Translation and Power

My country Iran has been in the U.S. news for decades. The American news whipsaws…

Expanding the Waters of Love: A Review of Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready To See Frank Ocean

“Of course, when I say, ‘Ocean’ I am thinking of myself —how every time I…

Voice Thundering: A Review of The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Back in middle school my boyfriend Carlos grabbed my hand right before the school bell…

Review: a slightly shifting stillness: Vi Khi Nao’s Sheep Machine

  00:43 It’s difficult to measure the active frequency of images that shift only slightly.…

REVIEW: I am the Person I Know Best: Jennifer Givhan’s Lifeline

Run. Being run. Run on asphalt. Being run on asphalt with old sneakers. Being run…