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Review

Everything Known: On Geoff Dyer’s “Homework”

Lucy Schiller·January 22, 2026

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Review

Everything Known: On Geoff Dyer’s “Homework”

Lucy Schiller·January 22, 2026

Into the rest, I sank with a kind of agreeable, warm bafflement.

Fiction and Poetry

The Argument

Jordan Gisselbrecht·January 21, 2026

Why hold onto your books so tenderly, he asked. Why collect them in such great quantities with no intention to read them?

Review

I See Jayne Cortez: On Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez

Cary Stough·January 20, 2026

Rarely can one stomach the fact that to write political entails that you live political, as Cortez certainly did.

Review

Trauma Flop: On Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein”

Zoe Hu·January 15, 2026

Narrative in the novel is meant to terrify. In the movie, it rehabilitates.

Excerpt

from “The Oxeye Reader 3: Cincinnati”

Harris Wheeler and Brett Price·January 14, 2026

the pictures, of you, begin to resemble, you, less, the more, you scroll down.

Review

The Return to Post Disaster: On Anna Malihon’s “Girl with a Bullet”

olga mikolaivna·January 13, 2026

Could a bullet be a language?

Essay

Color Theory

Leo Kim·January 8, 2026

Shimmering at the barely visible edge of the horizon, the faintest color of hope.

Fiction and Poetry

Three Poems

Katherine Franco·January 7, 2026

and I must take this road from every example even if these examples are the document of my life and every one I loved.

Review

A Woman Inflates to the Sound of Applause: On Mackenzie Kozak’s “no swaddle”

Niina Pollari·January 6, 2026

lack of sound, lack of baby in a room, lack of the titular swaddle, a metonymic device also standing in for the baby, lack of something...

Review

Mind the Gap: On Giri Nathan’s “Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men’s Tennis”

Alexa Margorian·January 1, 2026

We knew it was over when his Nike wristbands came off, crumpling upon their release.

Interview

Instructional Manual for Good Writerly Practice: An Interview with rob mclennan

Katie Ebbitt and rob mclennan·December 30, 2025

Write one thing. Write the next thing.

Fiction and Poetry

Dismemberment

Ray Levy·December 19, 2025

The Jeff-Goldblum-crossed-with-a-fly-divided-by-cat-dog-and-just-released-from-the-telepod-writhing-in-agony-in-a-pink-stinking-mess-on-the-floor kind of trans person?

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