The Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics in America
By Francois Cusset Translated by David Homel Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011; 146 pp.; $17.95 Francois Cusset, a professor of American Studies at the University of Paris, has written The Inverted Gaze:...
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by Stephanie Dickinson Spuyten Duyvil, 2011 70 pp.; $10 Picking up Stephanie Dickinson’s Lust Series I could hear a faint rumble of insecurity from somewhere inside of me. The format of this collection...
View ArticleStranger on a Strange Island
by Grant Buday New Star Books, 2011 80 pp.; $19 The front cover picture of Grant Buday’s 2011 Mayne Island memoir, Stranger on a Strange Island, announces the tone of its innards unambiguously: a...
View ArticleOn Value
For those lucky enough to have survived it, the worst thing that happened in the 20th century was the malaise that defined it: the ubiquitous and relentless attempt of every political power to...
View ArticleHalfway to Happiness
In my apartment taped to the fridge is a photograph I took in the summer of 1989 on the west Coast of Ireland. In it is the form of my father—now more than twenty years gone—middle-aged, stooped,...
View Article31st Annual Western Magazine Award Winners!
Congratulations to Lee Kvern (Winner, Fiction Category) for “Detachment” and Carl Wiens (Winner, Best Illustration) for his illustration for “Detachment”, featured in subTerrain #61. The awards were...
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View ArticleZero Street? Where Are We?
In the fall of 1994 we had been in our new offices in the Lee Building at the intersection of Main & Broadway for close to three years. The old office was above Guys & Dolls Billiards, across...
View ArticleFifteen Miles South of the Arctic Circle
The river valley is broad and shallow, smooth unblemished snow, from the western ridge where I stand, to the steeper eastern side. The river itself is deep and fast but it’s frozen over, and except for...
View ArticleNine Murderers Look at a Lake
She’d read that the skin was the body’s largest organ, that it could easily weigh fourteen pounds, and imagined it folded like a blanket, a wetsuit, or a flap of tripe. She put her hands to her face...
View ArticleNew Deadly Sins
A child of God from Tennessee told me I’m aging well. It all comes back to big creature voice, to the faith-shadow flinch beneath still water and quick water. It’s what we know from the bitter, like...
View ArticleNormal
For my daughters Micah-Sophia and Rory Sarah I’m fighting normal. I’m choreographing this other dance, where you spin across the floor and out the door while the other kids are still jumping on the...
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View ArticleThe Archaeologists -- Chapter 34: June and Susan—Tuesday, July 22
June sits on a padded chair in the backyard listening to the rumbling machines. The sound is a feeling, distant and peaceful, like the gentle tremble of a car as you drift off to sleep in the back...
View ArticleLush 2016 Winners!
The winning entries in the 2016 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards are: Fiction: Winner: Kate McQuestion for "The Coyote Bride" Runner-up: Matthew Jay Belyea for "Hospedaje Cocibolca" Poetry: Winner:...
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At night the coyotes run through the hydro field behind our house. This never used to happen. These packs of mangy, skinny dogs used to live on the outskirts of town, west of Kalar Road in the vast...
View ArticleYouth Laid Waste
When I was a teenager I skipped school so much I’d get taken aside by my teachers and told I’d missed the most school of anyone in the history of our little Montreal-West, public-for-smart-kids prep...
View ArticleLush 2017 Contest
We are pleased to announce the winning entries in our 2017 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards. Fiction winner Drift, maybe fall by Brent van Staalduinen (Hamilton, ON) Fiction runner-up Let Her Cry by...
View ArticleSmall, Malicious Planet
What were the odds? Her? Here? Wexler has long forgotten her real name. When he dreams her, she’s either Catherine T., or...
View ArticleReport from the Kingdom of the Afterlife
In the future, books of the past will be redacted and digitized, to be read only by the criminally insane. As the gulf between the present and what you imagined the present would be swallows your...
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