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Espresso Shots: Hypochondria, by Will Rees

March 9, 2025 driftlessareareview

Hypochondria by Will Rees is his attempt to chronicle his condition and an exploration of the phenomenon known as hypochondria. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Hypochondria, by Will Rees

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Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq @ NYJB

November 23, 2024May 16, 2025 driftlessareareview

Annihilation does provoke and offend and dazzle. Continue reading Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq @ NYJB

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Critic’s Notebook: Casanova, a ballet by Kenneth Tindall

November 17, 2024 driftlessareareview

Micro-review of Midjourney: “It produces art like Thomas Kinkade on Ambien.” Continue reading Critic’s Notebook: Casanova, a ballet by Kenneth Tindall

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Espresso Shots: Mary and the Rabbit Dream, by Noémi Kiss-Deáki

August 25, 2024 driftlessareareview

Mary and the Rabbit Dream is a short novel, a psychodrama illustrating a tabloid press run amok, and body horror as farce. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Mary and the Rabbit Dream, by Noémi Kiss-Deáki

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How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand

May 1, 2024April 30, 2024 driftlessareareview

Form follows destruction. Continue reading How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand

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Translation Tuesdays: Living Things, by Munir Hachemi

April 30, 2024April 28, 2024 driftlessareareview

Living Things is a socioeconomic critique of industrial agriculture, but can also be read as Cronenberg-style body horror. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Living Things, by Munir Hachemi

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Wednesday Poetry Corner: Numbers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

November 22, 2023November 19, 2023 driftlessareareview

Numbers is a beautifully rendered poetic artifact, a rollicking admixture of visuals and text Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Numbers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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Espresso Shots: 404 Error: memoir of a nobody, by RG Vasicek & Zak Ferguson

October 22, 2023 driftlessareareview

The short novel shifts between comedy and horror, commentary and meta-commentary, wetware and meatspace. Continue reading Espresso Shots: 404 Error: memoir of a nobody, by RG Vasicek & Zak Ferguson

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Critic’s Notebook: Random Thoughts on the Barbie movie

July 30, 2023July 30, 2023 driftlessareareview

Barbie is a quest narrative. Continue reading Critic’s Notebook: Random Thoughts on the Barbie movie

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Commonplace Book: 3 Random Passages from Richard Makin Novels

June 12, 2023June 10, 2023 driftlessareareview

Bendy words heaped into bulwarks. Continue reading Commonplace Book: 3 Random Passages from Richard Makin Novels

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