By Dan DeWeese
Solaris, genre, and the problems of loving simulacra.
January 28: Kirsten Ihns in Chicago Review’s Winter Poetry Reading
Chicago Review’s winter poetry reading January 28th includes Kirsten Ihns, author of sundaey.
The Invention of Marienbad
By Dan DeWeese
Is every art film science fiction?
The Monster in Your Head
By Dan DeWeese
Forbidden Planet diagnoses the movies.
Sex Slaves
By Dan DeWeese
Before space, there was obsession.
Méliès and the Limits
By Dan DeWeese
Taking A Trip to the Moon.
New Poems by Jeff Alessandrelli
By Jeff Alessandrelli
“The Puppy Still Hasn’t Opened Her Eyes”
from “Be Yer Own Hitman (Deathsounds/Lovesongs)”
“Nothing of the Month Club”
On Kirsten Ihns Throwing Voices
In Poetry Northwest, another rave review for Kirsten Ihns’s sundaey.
NeoCop
By Danny O’Brien
RoboCop and the failure of satire.
We Were Tired of Being Mild
By Joshua James Amberson
Post-punk poet Lydia Tomkiw’s collected poems.
Artificial Socrates Logs In
By Dan DeWeese
A face-making application and a little Photoshop bring the Classical Greeks to life.
The Oregon Department of Corrections Amid Covid-19 (Part Eight)
By Michael D. Kell
A glimpse into working in food service in prison during the pandemic.
Voices That Filled the Years
By Joshua James Amberson
Catherine Lacey’s “Pew” listens to the American South.
The Black-Marketer's Daughter (an excerpt)
By Suman Mallick
From Mallick’s new novel, out October 13th.
The Stories We Tell About Guantánamo
By Joshua James Amberson
Sarah Mirk gathers a collection of voices and images from the notorious prison.
Time Stumbles Forward
By Jonah Hall
Walking into preschool—and anxiety—during the pandemic.
Three Poems by Nora Claire Miller
By Nora Claire Miller
“when telling”
a selection from LULL
“about numbers”
Telling Their Stories as They Demand It
By Mary Rechner
Nigeria-raised Oregon writer Kesha Ajose Fisher talks about her story collection No God Like the Mother, winner of a 2020 Oregon Book Award.
The Oregon Department of Corrections Amid Covid-19 (Part Seven)
By Michael D. Kell
For inmates in the Oregon State Penitentiary, there is nowhere to hide.
Boys Fort to Close, Everything Must Go
The downtown men’s boutique is objectively the greatest retail experience Portland will ever know.