The Last Contract by Alexander Sorondo @ The Metropolitan Review
KeinerMachtsBesser.de
Category: Media Bites
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far) via Arts & Letters Daily
“You can’t just let them fucking take over”: The Mat Wakeham interview @ The Comics Journal
500 dogs barking: Autofiction in and out of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Dog Days by Zachary Garrett @ The Comics Journal
Green Milk from the Planet Orange [Discography] via r/ctebcm/
How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought by Annabel Abbs via Arts & Letters Daily
Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library @ It’s Nice That
Material Reading
With the Blogroll Review category as dried up as the reservoirs in Chinatown let me offer at least an occasional round-up of new sources that stand under the feuilleton umbrella waiting for the rain to come. This is one is of literary magazines.
Orion Magazin – Nature, Culture & Place — There is a print magazine, but shipping would ruin me financially, so I browse the online offerings. Essays, reviews, some poetry and the occasional short story. There are paywalls but you have to click a lot of links to drive into one of those.
Salmagundi Magazine – I don’t know where Skidmore is, but its college has this great quarterly. They know that people have no money (not even quarter-ly) so everything is free. You might want to start with a fabulous piece on Bees by Lauren K. Watel.
Literary Matters – Presented by The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Literary Matters is an online-only collection of poems, reviews, and all matters literature.
Current – They have server-problems at the moment but when they are up and running they have good stuff, like this link-love-list of their favorite essays of 2024 from other small magazines. In case you need even more reading material.
The Literary Saloon – Finally a blog. News and more about the literary world. as if the main project – “complete review” – wasn’t ambitious enough. The Saloon offers daily fragments into the global literary complex.