The Literary Review
  • Read
  • Submit
  • Subscribe
  • Archive
  • About
current issue

Looking Backward

Selections from the TLR Archive

Toggle navigation

An International Journal of Contemporary Writing

cover of the archive issue, type over picture of porcelain sailor boy
Subscribe

Categories

  • Books
  • Coming of Age
  • Editor's Letter
  • Essays
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • TLR SHARE
  • Wonder
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Abagail Belcastro

A Review of Topographies by Stephen Benz

October 14, 2019

Abagail Belcastro

(Wilkes-Barre, PA: Etruscan Press, 2019) Historically minded and introspective of both the culture of the landscapes and the people who inhabit them, Stephen Benz’ “Topographies” is a vivid and engaging collection of overlooked places and history. Benz travels widely from … Continued

A Review of A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua

October 1, 2018

Abagail Belcastro

(New York: Ballantine Books, 2018) A River of Stars follows Chinese factory department head, Scarlett Chen, on her harrowing journey as an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Scarlett falls for her married supervisor, and becomes pregnant during their affair. As … Continued

A Review of My Year of Dirt and Water by Tracy Franz

July 30, 2018

Abagail Belcastro

(Albany, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2018) Tracy Franz’s memoir, My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk’s Wife in Japan, chronicles the year her husband, Koun, attends intensive training in a cloistered temple to become a Zen … Continued

A Review of Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thompson

June 18, 2018

Abagail Belcastro

(New York: Other Press, 2018) Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thompson is an in-depth historical fiction following the surrealist photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore through their first meeting in the early 1900s, their move to 1920s Paris, followed by … Continued

© 2023 The Literary Review