Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s 2009 nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, revealed not only what it was like to be a woman at war, but the […]
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s The Soldier’s House, recommended by Issue 29 contributor Terese Svoboda In The Soldier’s House, Jimmy Donnell, a dazed PTSD-suffering vet, takes in the family of his dead Iraqi translator, including Tariq, the […]
Date: April 27, 2026
A Mighty Blaze Special Interview presents Jade Danelian with Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, LIVE on April 15 at 4:00 PM ET.
Date: April 27, 2026
“Music runs throughout The Soldier’s House as this plot unfolds, played on a little cassette recorder, the car radio, on an iPod (remember those?), or simply in the heads of […]
Date: April 27, 2026
Helen Benedict is no stranger to writing raw, careful prose about deep, complex characters. Her newest novel, The Soldier’s House, lives up to that legacy as it tells the story of […]
Date: April 16, 2026
To put it plainly, we are not shocked anymore. Not really, not by the current delivery mechanisms that have risen to fill our feeds, our media intakes, etc. We simulate […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Last night, FLAUNT and Luke Goebel celebrated the release of his novel Kill Dick with an intimate gathering at Genghis Cohen Los Angeles.
Date: April 15, 2026
Luke Goebel’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel KILL DICK.
Date: April 15, 2026
Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American author who has written about the overseas Vietnamese experience. He visited Boston’s Ford Hall Forum to discuss his latest collection, “Stories from the Edge […]
Date: April 15, 2026
In 2018, while working as a high school teacher in Oakland, Alan Chazaro would often bike around at night and stargaze by the city’s largest lake. He began to write […]
Date: August 15, 2023
CURSEBREAKERS by Madeleine Nakamura is a novel as electric as the lightning-bolt magic its protagonist wields, filled with curses, destruction, and piercing heartache. Sometimes vicious and violent; all times spectacular […]
Date: August 10, 2023
“Poems like these are as two-sided as Vuong’s title instrument: a zither plucked and plucked, played upon and snatched away. For every touch of warmth and musicality, she admits something […]
Date: August 8, 2023
“Nakamura’s treatment is nuanced and thoughtful, avoiding a veritable minefield of harmful stereotypes to deliver genuine characters with heart…A tightly plotted conspiracy novel that blends seamlessly with its superbly developed […]
Date: July 27, 2023
“…the intimate representation of bipolar disease and addiction, the normalization of queer characters, and the nuanced depiction of aromantic male-female friendship make this an exciting read.” The full review will […]
Date: July 27, 2023
You Were Watching from the Sand The debut short story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised, Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy, vividly portrays adolescent life and dreams in Miami’s Haitian community. Gritty, […]
Date: July 13, 2023
Synopsis: On the eve of Earth’s collapse, young Marisol Blaise is taken to live on an underwater ‘mersation’ known as Aqueous with parents not her own. There, she must compete […]
Date: July 12, 2023
Translator Bell offers a long-overdue introduction of German poet Sessner to English-speaking readers…Over the course of this collection, Sessner’s inclination toward enjambment and sparse use of stanzas encourage readers to […]
Date: July 10, 2023
This debut collection by Fairbanks poet and musician Warren presents the reality of living as a nonbinary person, with poems responding to childhood confusions, to societal pressures and cruelties, and […]
Date: July 6, 2023
Reality shifts and reforms in disquieting and disorientating ways in MacLeish Sq., the latest novel by Dennis Must, as the unlikely hero recognizes that he has reached the final phase of […]
Date: June 28, 2023
n this time of acrimony and push-button polemics, it is a rare pleasure to discover a writer whose politically engaged poetry is vividly alive to the nuances evoked by incisive […]
