Issue 23 Reviews


Katherine L. Holmes, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx
Reviewed by E. D. Watson

perhaps you've had the experience of going into an antiques shop and happening upon a curious object you don’t immediately recognize and whose function is not revealed by its design. Its shape is familiar enough to suggest various uses: perhaps it’s a fancy kind of spoon rest, or an enormous shoehorn—but why is there a blade in the bottom? And what is that hole for? You turn it over in your hands, examining the mysterious object from different angles, wondering to yourself, whatever is this? But there is no tag, and no shopkeeper to explain.

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Kate Zambreno, Green Girl
Reviewed by Jane Hawley

she's fresh. she's sick. She’s a green girl.

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