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Book Reviews and Literary Criticism

Essays​

True Crime and Its Discontents, Thriller Thursday Substack

Ten Feminist Crime Novels Subverting the Dead Girl Trope, Electric Literature

The Age of Disenchantment, Writer's Digest

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Interviews

Kat Davis Talks Pop Culture, Internet Obsessions, and the Dark Fairy Tale of Childhood, CrimeReads

A Life of Books, Debutiful

Darkness from the Past Intruding on the Present, Fresh Fiction

Q&A: The Nerd Daily

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Book Reviews

Art Monster, Southwest Review.

In Praise of Messy Creation, Southwest Review.

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​Chicago Review of Books (Selected)

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Power and Uncertainty in Marie NDiaye's Vengeance is Mine

Bodies and Open Spaces in Oksana Vasyakina's Wound

Language, Gender, and Power in Brenda Lozano's Witches

Confronting the Grief of Infertility in Elisa Albert's Human Blues

The Art of the Smith in Ali Smith's Companion Piece

A Form that Can Hold and Transform in Sarah Manguso's Very Cold People

Lucy Lurie Tells Her Story in Fiona Snycker's Lacuna

Writing in the Unspeakable in Preti Taneja's Aftermath

Depression and Desertion in Claire Vaye Watkins's I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

Migration. Exile, and Translation" Mariana Oliver's Migratory Birds

Elusive Freedom in Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie

Belonging and Metaphysical Horror in Marie NDiaye's That Time of Year

The Creation of Culture in The Sprawl

Identity and Community in Catherine Lacey's Pew

Class and Religion Collide in Megha Majumdar's A Burning

A Twist on Tolstoy in Carmen Boullosa's The Book of Anna

Translating the Unsaid: EJ Koh's The Magical Language of Others

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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's Scary Fairy Tales, The Ploughshares Blog

Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes, The Ploughshares Blog

Tending the Shared Garden of Immunity, The Ploughshares Blog

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