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Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Katherine Koller's Earthen (pub. @greatplainspress.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...Another crucial element of scene-building is dialogue, and Koller’s experience as a playwright is on full display... www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-kol...
Read Anson Leung's review of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece (pub. @viz.com) in Issue 36! One Piece is not like other manga. It is very long, detailed, in-depth, and is almost suffocating in terms of the amount of reading one must do to not miss out on key details... www.thetemzreview.com/leung-oda-36...
Read Salma Hussain's review of JoAnn McCaig's Beneficiary (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social)! Beneficiary...is an ambitious, introspective work that draws readers in with its complicated main character, its social commentary and its creative structure... www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-mcca...
The Fall Down Effect "takes readers deep into a richly described world, while encouraging them to consider whether they could also do more than just hope.” Michelle Sinclair reviews @lizjohnston.bsky.social's debut novel for @thetemzreview.bsky.social. www.thetemzreview.com/sinclair-joh...
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Reviewed by Michelle Sinclair
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Read Benjamin Haupt's review of Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza's JAWS (pub. Cardboard House Press) in Issue 36! ...Although her language is largely concrete, Mendoza resists tidy resolution in favour of evocative ambiguity... www.thetemzreview.com/haupt-rodri7...
Read Hannah Gardiner's review of Jenny Erpenbeck's Things That Disappear (pub. @ndbooks.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...Anyone looking for a kind of renewed poetic attention to things will find in Erpenbeck’s new book a worthy companion... www.thetemzreview.com/gardiner-erp...
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @jenfalkner.bsky.social' Susanna Hall, Her Book (pub. @fishgottaswim.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...[It] is a compelling read with a ghostly tone and vivid recountings of history that is staying with me... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-falkner...
Read D.B.'s review of Patrick Woodcock's Farhang: Book Two (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...Woodcock possesses a rare ability to move between philosophical reflection and concrete physical detail without sacrificing momentum... www.thetemzreview.com/db-woodcock....
Read @joyceboucharaa.bsky.social's review of Monique Gray Smith's Sharing the Light (pub. @houseofanansi.bsky.social)! Through stories of gratitude, love, joy, happiness, and hope, she encourages us to seek the light within ourselves and in the world around us www.thetemzreview.com/bou-charaa-g...
Read @bonnycd.bsky.social's thoughtful review of Alison Gadsby's Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive (pub. Guernica) in Issue 36! ...On paper, Breathing is exactly what I should want from a new short fiction collection coming out in Canada in 2026... www.thetemzreview.com/bonnycd-gads...
Read @bonnycd.bsky.social's review of @kyleflemmer.com's The Wiki of Babel (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social)! ...Flemmer’s particularly pointed filching of a commons resource by and large is not circular, does not stray down dark, dead-ended net-alleys... www.thetemzreview.com/bonnycd-flem...
Read @lisatimpf.bsky.social's interview of Ian Thomas re: Green Islands (pub. Raven Chapbooks) in Iss 36! I think poetry itself has a special connection to the science of ecology, because to me, poetry is fundamentally ecological in its approach to language... www.thetemzreview.com/timpf-thomas...
Read Aaliya Sylvia's interview of Elizabeth Urso re: Hail Mary (pub. @simonschusterca.bsky.social)! [It] began as a single image: a woman teaching at her own alma mater digs up a time capsule and inside is a rosary with teeth strung up like prayer beads... www.thetemzreview.com/sylvia-urso-...
Don't miss Salma Hussain's interview of Sima Qadeer re: Brown Girls, Grown Up (pub. @nupress.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...I’m a pantser. I didn’t write by an outline or a structure. My process was to sit down, try to treat it as a nine-to-five... www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-qade...
Don't miss Aaron Schneider's important essay on Alistair MacLeod's Island. Why does McLelland & Stewart think that a book that valorizes SA in general and SA of Indigenous/Black women in particular belongs in its reconciliation-focused Kanata Classics? www.thetemzreview.com/schneider-ma...
"I devoured the book whole as if it was happening in the moment, and I was the one going through the tumultuous incidents in it.” @amandaearl.bsky.social reviews Miranda Schreiber's debut novel, Iris and the Dead, for @thetemzreview.bsky.social. www.thetemzreview.com/earl-schreib...
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Reviewed by Amanda Earl
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Read Elwen Bernard-Kostadinov's insightful creative non-fiction "Someone Who Hurts the Dog" in Issue 36! At first the dog barks at me. I pet her and my host says, Pet her. Be aggressive about it. I’m sorry she keeps doing this, she says. It’s disturbing. ... www.thetemzreview.com/bernard-kost...
Read Jane Berger Herschlag's moving creative non-fiction "A Catastrophic Turn of Events" in Issue 36. Content warning: Graphic sexual assault & incest ...To see reality is to relinquish hope; it means death... www.thetemzreview.com/herschlag-36...
Don't miss Violet Pitsker's acerbic story "The Cuttlebone" in Issue 36! ...I told my boyfriend that I was in love with Sasha. He laughed; I felt a spur of anger. A man’s sexuality was different, I thought. It writhed in my DMs like beached fish... www.thetemzreview.com/pitsker-36.h...
Read @breezenavarro.bsky.social's poignant spec fic "First of May" in Issue 36! ...I stand at the edge of oblivion, stare out into the depths of sky, sea blue, night dark, canyon deep and wonder what’s out there for me... www.thetemzreview.com/navarro-36.h...
Read @jimgenia.bsky.social's moving story "Zuya (Warrior)" in Issue 36! First her aunt called to say her father died, then her boss asked if she’d murder his mother. Twenty-year-old Zuya the Fancy Dancer. Reservation refugee, stripper... www.thetemzreview.com/genia-36.html
Don't miss Sophia Bosma's eerie story "Dead" in Issue 36! ...Another week went by before she spoke. My sister, the dead girl, and I were sprawled on the grass in the backyard as my mother circled with her gardening shears... www.thetemzreview.com/bosma-36.html
Read Mei Backof's haunting story "All the Delaware Angels" in Issue 36! Content warning: Horror There was no electricity after the angels came. There was something about how they sang. ... www.thetemzreview.com/backof-36.html
Read Testimony Akinkunmi's excellent story "The journey eats a person" in Issue 36! The letter came on a Tuesday. Brown envelope, Home Office crest, my name spelled correctly for once... www.thetemzreview.com/akinkunmi-36...
Read Alba Zalli's fantastic poem "Makeup Tutorial for Beginners" in Issue 36! ... Our fingers tangle between lip-gloss shine, And swallowing stones. Girlhood rituals. Except I’ve not been a girl in a long time, And you haven’t started yet. It’s residual. ... www.thetemzreview.com/zalli-36.html
Don't miss Joshua St. Claire's wonderful poem "Peonyverse" in Issue 36! the dust that took Shannon Hoon ivory peony both minuend and subtrahend salmon peony the shadow of a murmuration deep peony ... www.thetemzreview.com/st-claire-36...
Read Stan Rogal's wry poems in Issue 36! From "(un)natural acts": oftener & oftener groped your shoulder excuse my blood : forgive my brain I am dumpy, obtuse, old & out of it at night I feel my hands prowl over me ... www.thetemzreview.com/rogal-36.html
Read Jessica Popeski's amazing poems in Issue 36! From "imagine": imagine a poem without a cliff face, weeds the only sign of life. no balcony to fling myself from, kersplat into porcelain snow, wind so violent i could fall in love... www.thetemzreview.com/popeski-36.h...
