Read Josh Quirion's review of @zakjones.ca's novel Fancy Gap (pub. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...This story is old school. It’s more rotary phone than cellphone, more freight train than Tesla. It’s heavy and wet and compulsive... www.thetemzreview.com/quirion-jone...
Read Raphaela Pavlakos' review of Chief R. Stacey Laforme's Beneath the Surface: Poems and Their Stories (pub. @durvile-shyba.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...The deeply personal nature of each poem and story is one of this book’s greatest strengths... www.thetemzreview.com/pavlakos-laf...
Read Raksha Muthukumar's review of Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me (pub. Simon & Schuster) in Issue 35! ...Her memoir highlights the parallels between the complicated and oftentimes thankless love we can hold for home, and for homeland... www.thetemzreview.com/muthukumar-r...
Read @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of @fmolavi.bsky.social's collection Stories from Tehran (pub. Asemana) in Issue 35! ...The stories are a tapestry of sensory images, infused with desire, longing, rage and joy... www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-molav...
Read @madeprojects.bsky.social's review of @paulvermeersch.bsky.social's NMLCT (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...In the collection, as in the universe, existence is nothing if not ouroboric... www.thetemzreview.com/made-vermeer...
Read Kathryn MacDonald's review of @dani-netherclift.bsky.social's Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (pub. Assembly) in Issue 35! We’re told that the elegiac and lyrical narrative is rooted in the 1993 drowning deaths of Netherclift’s brother and father... www.thetemzreview.com/macdonald-ne...
Read Anson Leung's review of Q-Boy's Plaything (pub. Webtoon) in Issue 35! ...Its main selling point is its revenge-based story. This is not about justice. This is about cathartic revenge... www.thetemzreview.com/leung-q-boy-...
Read Gitura Kihuria's review of Oyinkan Braithwaite's novel My Sister, the Serial Killer (pub. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...Fast-paced, darkly humorous, and utterly captivating, the book will keep you hooked to the final page... www.thetemzreview.com/kihuria-brai...
Read Salma Hussain's review of Sima Qadeer's Brown Girls, Grown Up (pub. @nupress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...In the end, it is this underlying, pulsating message of self-love in Sima Qadeer’s debut ... that is the most taboo and radical of all. www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-qade...
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Stephanie Bolster's Long Exposure (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! Braiding disasters into one long poem, Stephanie Bolster offers the tender and the terrible details in Long Exposure... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-bolster...
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of André Babyn's novel Evie of the Deepthorn (pub. @dundurnpress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...What I get most of all from this novel is that struggle of how to overcome the inevitable. I have this too... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-babyn-3...
Read Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews' review of Russell Thornton's collection Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025 (pub. @harbourpublishing.bsky.social) in Issue 35! To transmute dross into gold is the power of an alchemist... www.thetemzreview.com/di-sciascio-...
Read Micaela Cárcamo's review of Joanna Cockerline's novel Still (pub. Porcupine's Quill) in Issue 35! ...The world Cockerline shares is one filled with hope and resilience, as well as despair and injustice... www.thetemzreview.com/caacutercamo...
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Check out our latest newsletter, featuring an interview with Caleb Merritt re: his poetry in Issue 34! ...I think the erasure is a kind of wonderful way — when you can’t seem to ‘find/invent/bring forth’ the words — to play... Read and subscribe here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Read @lisatimpf.bsky.social's interview of @aliennextdoor.bsky.social re: her novel A Diary in the Age of Water (pub. Inanna)! Most of us live [in] a worldview and belief system that came from a place of great uncertainty with a perception of scarcity... www.thetemzreview.com/timpf-muntea...
Read @bengymen.bsky.social's interview of Zane Koss re: his collection Country Music (pub. @invisibooks.bsky.social)! It’s been a project that was percolating for a long time, or that I was struggling for a long time to figure out how exactly it would work... www.thetemzreview.com/robinson-kos...
Read Renee Cronley's interview of @marionlougheed.bsky.social re: her poetry collection Baggage Claim (pub. @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...Sometimes when my mind is churning at night, I’ll write a poem to get out my thoughts... www.thetemzreview.com/cronley-loug...
Read @aaronkreuter.bsky.social's thoughtful and thought-provoking essay "Jewish Fiction After October Seventh" in Issue 35! In 1977, literary scholar Irving Howe prophesied the end of American Jewish fiction... www.thetemzreview.com/kreuter-35.h...
Don't miss Carter Vance's wonderful story "Clean, with Bright Lights" in Issue 35! It was by the afternoon when I knew what this all meant. It meant another half-summer of tubes into my nose and wires set on my hands... www.thetemzreview.com/vance-35.html