Lit Magazine, Issue #33
Deep Time and Dark Spaces: Robert Macfarlane’s Underland

"Under the earth is a world far stranger and far more mystical than our humdrum life here up top. Robert Macfarlane’s latest book, detailing these mysterious underground places, serves as part field guide and magic handbook for us surface dwellers. Underland weaves together a narrative of not just the earth and its underworld, but of the history, the present, and the future of mankind. This is not a book for the claustrophobic."

Macfarlane’s review of the review: “This is one of the best things I’ve read on Underland, SNK. I hugely appreciate it. Profound, testing, subtle reading. Especially glad to see you responding to the horror/SF registers and tropes; we are living through (Anthropocene) times pre-seen by genre…So, thank you.”

PANK Magazine, 2018 Digital Edition
[Review] Crudo by Olivia Laing

"This is not a book meant to soothe. In fact, this is a book that’s been written without any concern for the reader’s well-being. And why should it be? The year is 2017 and Donald Trump is president, Nazis are on the rise, and nuclear war between The United States and North Korea feels eminent. (No sweat, a year later and Trump will tell a rally in West Virginia about how he and Kim Jung Un “fell in love” that summer—kind of like Kathy Acker.) Everything about the book infects the reader with the same skin bursting sensations of that summer in history and Kathy Acker’s general emotional stasis."

PANK Magazine, 2018 Digital Edition
[Review] Any Man by Amber Tamblyn

"Amber Tamblyn’s debut novel speaks to a climate where we face more and more revelations about the monsters that haunt our communities with their self-serving path of destruction and abuse. While the monster in this story is infamous for one peculiarity—this time the sexual predator is a woman, who goes by the name Maude—the unfolding of the narrative plays out like so many others our society has seen. Moreover, it is the public’s schadenfreude and salivation at witnessing this private pain that Tamblyn suggests that we, the public, are perhaps just as monstrous as the predators that lurk in dark corners."