James Morrow explores ideas with visionary audacity and a satirical (yet nonetheless disturbing) bent perhaps unequaled since Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld series—as if directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.   Read my review of James Morrow’s new novella here. Or else. . . .

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what if i got down on my knees? Tony Rauch Whistling Shade Press 204 pages (paperback) Review by William Grabowski [for The Toronto Review of Books] After assessing a few of Tony Rauch’s previous works, such as i’m right here (Spout Press, 1998), laredo, and eyeballs growing all over me . . . again (Eraserhead […]

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Detritus in Love Mercedes M. Yardley and John Boden Omnium Gatherum, eBook October 3, 2016 Review by William Grabowski [first published on horror review-dot-com for 2 May 2017] It might be a case of projecting inner disappointment onto the world, but over the past months I’ve found very few books that, on an emotional level, […]

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