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Messer reviews Fiander

Saturday Review: “A Mix of Grief and Mystery” a review by Cody Messer of Matthew Fiander’s Ringing in Your Ears (2023) in NCLR Online Spring 2025

Messer describes Fiander’s debut novel as…

“Looking inward and upward”

Friday from the Archives: “Ultimate Trip” the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize essay by Steve Mitchell with art by Tim Christensen in NCLR 2022 | Two Albright winners fascinated by the stars.

Bradley reviews Tran

Saturday Review: “The Kindness in Anger,” a review by Onyx Bradley of Eric Tran’s Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke (2022) in NCLR Online Spring 2025.
Bradley reviews a recent collection of Tran’s poetry that touches on LGBTQ+ grief while not “letting the poems get too dark”.

“The idea of ‘blackness'”

Friday from the Archives: “A Visitation with Randall Kenan” an interview by George Hovis with art by Antoine Williams in NCLR 2019
Two new pieces about Kenan will be in our 2025 issue this summer.

McGaha reviews Smith

Saturday Review: “A Stunning and Haunting Survival Story” a review by Jennifer McGaha in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Stephanie Clare Smith’s Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and imagination (2024)

West reviews Beam

Saturday Review: “Scripture of Exile and Return” a review by Robert M. West of Jeffery Beam’s Verdant (2022) in NCLR Online Spring 2025.