Tag Archives: Fall 2017

Fall 2017

INTERVIEWS Discovery in Darkness: An Interview with Samanta Schweblin Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin discusses her influences and her work, including her recently translated short novel, Fever Dream. Interviewed by Allan Vorda and Liliana Avila Created Identities: An Interview with Elvira Navarro Spanish author and avant-gardist Navarro discussed her new novel, soon to be translated in […]

The Quality of Mercy

Katayoun Medhat Leapfrog Press ($16) by Jackie Trytten Crimes, cops, and communities that don’t respect each other’s cultural differences—all sound current and familiar. In Katayoun Medhat’s debut novel, The Quality of Mercy, one police officer, an outsider to the Southwest, works to solve the murder of yet another young Navajo man as feelings of distrust […]

The Twenty Days of Turin

Giorgio De Maria Translated by Ramon Glazov Liveright ($24.95) by Rick Henry A good horror story requires monstrosity. Giorgio De Maria's The Twenty Days of Turin features the worst of the worst—the abyss, the unnamable, the unknowable, all of which is a monstrosity as malevolent as can be. In his expression of existential-social terror, De […]

Buckskin Cocaine

Erika T. Wurth Astrophil Press ($15.95) by Zack Kopp Erika T. Wurth’s new collection of short stories depicts the Native film industry in the voices of several participants. With nodes in Albuquerque, Denver, and elsewhere throughout the United States, that scene is fraught by all the same vanity games and decadence as its decrepit parent, […]

The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have

Bonnie Rochman Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($26) by Victoria Blanco Four years ago, when I was pregnant with my first child, my husband and I discussed the pros and cons of the routine genetic screening offered to us. We settled against the tests, but three years later, when my son was diagnosed with autism, I […]

Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-Right and Trump

Angela Nagle Zero Books ($16.95) by Alex Kies The rise of President Trump and right-wing populism worldwide was preceded and normalized by a far-right social media movement. Sites such as 4chan and reddit fostered online right-wing communities that spilled out into internet journalism, Facebook and Twitter, and ultimately the White House. In her book Kill […]

Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2017 (#87)

To purchase issue #87 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS Tom Rademacher: Driving into the Fire | by Molly Sutton Kiefer Gabrielle Bell: “I do try to give people souls” | by Kevin Huizenga FEATURES The New Life | a comic by Gary Sullivan Ursule Molinaro: The Fallacy of Identity | by Ben Shields Vivid Particularity: […]