CROATOAN: A Review of Kevin Honold’s Our Lady of Good Voyage (Orison Books, 2024). Kevin Honold’s Our Lady of Good Vo…
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New Review: Mike Carson on Kevin Honold’s “The Rock Cycle: Essays”
Kevin Honold’s new essay collection, The Rock Cycle, begins in the Arabian Desert. It is 1991. U.S. forces have just …
New Review from Michael Carson: “Cherry” by Nico Walker
Early on in Nico Walker’s Cherry, the narrator, working a dead-end shoe store job to pay for drugs while his parents …
Turn On, Tune Out, Drop In: Review Essay of Ben Fountain’s Beautiful Country Burn Again
D.H. Lawrence once claimed that the “essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.” This sounds nice…
“I Like the Real Stuff”—WBT Interviews Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain, the award-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, and, mo…
Interview with Matt Young, Author of Eat the Apple
Matt Young is a writer, teacher, and veteran. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Miami University …
Go Home and Dig It: A Review of Will Mackin’s Bring Out The Dog
“Crossing the River with No Name,” the eighth story in Will Mackin’s debut collection, Bring Out the Dog, describes t…
Lady Bird’s Pain
There’s an odd narrative thread in Greta Gerwig’s 2017 Lady Bird. The titular hero lives out her senior year of high …
In Laurent Bécue-Renard’s Of Men and War War Is Not Tragic But Embarrassing
In The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell argued that every war is ironic because every war is worse than…
David Rieff’s In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies
In At The Mind’s Limits, a series of essays reflecting on his time spent in the Nazi concentration camps, Jean …