Issue #9

December 2024

Fiction: Sally Rooney, Intermezzo (FSG)

Poetry: Forrest Gander, Mojave Ghost (New Directions)

Nonfiction: Evan Rail, The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit (Melville House)

Fiction: Augusto Monterroso, The Rest Is Silence, trans. Aaron Kerner (NYRB)

Poetry: Rick Barot, Moving the Bones (Milkweed)

History: Gareth Harney, A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins (Atria Books)

Fiction: Donald E. Westlake, Lemons Never Lie (Hard Case Crime)

Theatre: Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, dir. Kirsten Brandt (Nevada Conservatory Theatre)

Happy Anniversary: Fifty Years of The Godfather Part II