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The 1980s were a contentious time in Korea. Following the 1979 assassination of dictator, Park Chung-hee, protests began springing up all over the country after one of his generals seized…

By Caleb J. Ross, Nik Korpon, Richard Thomas, and Axel Taiari Several years ago at an AWP conference, there was a conversation about writing a shared universe novel. It happened…

I loved The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. The Wall of Storms (WoS) is not just a brilliant follow up, but one of the greatest novels I’ve read. There…

There’s a new player in the literary field. Gamut is coming and will be edited by one of the busiest people in writing, Richard Thomas. Thomas is the author of…

Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s poetry is searing. In an earlier review about her new collection, Solar Maximum, I wrote: “The poetry drips in the twilight of loss, a decimating emotional scourge…

Michelle Bailat-Jones’ Fog Island Mountains is a literary feast, a gorgeous excavation of perspective and how it shapes suffering. A writer and translator, Jones’ Fog Island Mountains won the 2013…

Previously, spy fictions have been regarded within the confines of the genre, as sets of conventions that somehow play into reader expectations. Allan Hepburn’s Intrigue: Espionage and Culture (Yale University…

What struck me most about Lincoln Michel’s novella, Our Education was the way it painted a devastating metaphor for society, sketching with understated wit, subversive in its intonations. The inflections…

The effect gravity and memory have on language is the relationship which propels Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s Solar Maximum. The poetry drips in the twilight of loss, a decimating emotional scourge…

When Janice and I started Entropy, we specifically wanted to create a venue where people would feel as comfortable talking about Super Mario Brothers and Silent Hill as they would…

A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove Translated by Mitchell Abidor Red Dust Books, 105 pps In the introduction to A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove, Brian Evenson refers to a “secret history”…

Prepared to be crushed to death. Or at least feel the palpable intensity of Gabino Iglesias’s Hungry Darkness (Severed Press). This is a taut, subterranean thriller that almost never lets…

In Disintegration by Richard Thomas, the breakdown of the mind is represented in his breakdown of language, a lexicon of destruction, dissipation, and dissolution. Violence is both lyrical and jarring,…

Being by Zach Ellis (Instant Future, 2015) is transformative. It’s a memoir about change and identity. There’s a loose structure, layers that aren’t so much chronological as they are thematic,…