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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Loss Control

A Review of My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard

April 23, 2015

Josh Billings

Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2012) Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is one of those rare books that appears at first to be failing miserably at what a novel is supposed to do, but then … Continued

A Review of The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

December 25, 2014

F. Daniel Rzicznek

(Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2012) As a writer, I create yearlong, but because of my position as an instructor of English composition, summer remains my season of “play,” three months when I treat writing like a full-time job. The giddiness … Continued

This Is Not a Personal Poem

April 4, 2014

Alex Dimitrov

This is not a personal poem. I don’t write about my life. I don’t have a life. I don’t have sex. I have not experienced death. Don’t take this personally but I don’t have any feelings either. The feelings I … Continued

The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell

January 3, 2014

Drew Calvert

The Singapore Grip is the final installment of J.G. Farrell’s “Empire Trilogy,” which chronicles the spectacle of British colonialism over the course of two centuries, from Ireland to India to Southeast Asia. It is also one of the only Anglo-American … Continued

The Future Is Not Ours by Ed. Diego Trelles Paz

January 3, 2014

Marion Wyce

Translated from Spanish by Janet Hendrickson (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, 2012) Recently I found myself in a first-class seat on a flight to Philadelphia. Normally when I  travel, I am seated somewhere deep in the bowels of the plane, so … Continued

A Review of The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

November 2, 2012

F. Daniel Rzicznek

(Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2012)   As a writer, I create yearlong, but because of my position as an instructor of English composition, summer remains my season of “play,” three months when I treat writing like a full-time job. The … Continued

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