Review: Trapped in Abby Geni’s The Body Farm
The characters in The Body Farm span across generations, backgrounds, lifestyles, and conflicts, but they all seem to share one thing: they’re trapped. This is Abby Geni’s second short story […]
Allison Manley writes book reviews, short stories, and poetry. In addition to writing for Third Coast Review, her reviews have been published in Independent Book Review and the Southern Review of Books. Her creative work has been published in The Chicago Reader, Points in Case, Not Deer Magazine, The Oyez Review, and The Gateway Review. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. She likes beer, opera, and body horror. She is particularly interested in reviewing single-author short story collections. If you see her, please let her pet your dog.
Review: The Body Keeps Score in A Small Apocalypse by Laura Chow Reeve
Laura Chow Reeve’s debut short story collection A Small Apocalypse is, like any good collection these days, thematically rich. It is mostly about young queer characters in the present day, […]
Review: Quiet Obsession and Control—Tender by Beth Hetland
There’s something wrong with Carolanne. Beth Hetland’s graphic novel Tender tells the story of a woman with #goals: Carolanne lives in a cozy apartment in Chicago, takes the train to […]
Review: Don’t Stay Where You’re Not Wanted, Bliss Montage, by Ling Ma
Don’t stay where you’re not wanted. In Ling Ma’s short story collection Bliss Montage, her characters learn this the hard way. Or at least, some of them do. These eight […]
Monster Portraits is Charmingly Inscrutable
Monster Portraits is refreshingly original, starting with its unusual form. It’s a collaborative effort between brother and sister duo Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar: Del sets the foundation of the […]
Machado Challenges Literary and Sexual Forms in Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties is a brilliant collection that makes you forget normal short stories. The most experimental story in her debut–at least in terms of […]