First basketball column of the year AND feat. in our winter issue for the first time in print 🏀 Read LET US NOW PRAISE GIANT MEN | I LOVE BASKETBALL by Liam Baranauskas Shoutout Metta World Peace conspiracy theories, & non-carbon based life! 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

New issue of @southwestreview.bsky.social is a stunner. It features a Needle Drops column where @meganabbott.bsky.social writes about Enya’s “Marble Halls” in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on PLACES IN THE HEART, & much more. 6 bucks a copy. southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

From our winter issue (out in the world irl) 🌎 Read SAND, SAND, SAND by Tamara Silva Bernaschina translated by Juana Adcock below southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

What a joy to talk with this brilliant star 🌟

New KNOWN ASSOCIATES is now live 🎙️ In this episode Elizabeth Nelson talks w/ the OG @annkpowers.bsky.social about writing, music, & being an all around badass 💥 Listen below courtesy of @newponytx.bsky.social southwestreview.com/known-associ...

“A speculative history that builds scenes out of a thin or nonexistent historical record” New @criveragarza.bsky.social -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON -- out today & we had Caroline Tracey review the goods ☁️ Read below & grab yours via @graywolfpress.bsky.social southwestreview.com/the-lives-th...

🎶 Track premiere: THE REMEDY by the Snarlin’ Yarns Our buds in the band are back w/ a banger. Listen to the title track below & order the LP out now 💥 southwestreview.com/video-premie...

🚨 Attn booksellers + bookstores! SwR is now available WW via the good homies at @asterismbooks.bsky.social THE WORLD IS OURS 🌎 asterismbooks.com/publisher/so...

💥 TONIGHT 💥 We'll be at @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social for the Dallas launch of THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social 📕 Free entry. Free SwR booty. NO COPS.

“Seventy-six pretty perfect minutes. A fairytale from the gutter.” 🕳️ Read @wmboyle4.bsky.social on his top movie recs for this month in the latest I WAKE UP STREAMING 🍿 southwestreview.com/i-wake-up-st...

Step 1: pull up at the 7-Eleven Step 2: spark up a Black & Mild Step 3: open up our winter issue and read DEPARTING FROM THE GRAPHIC WONDER OF THE UNDERNEATH by Jon Berger 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

❄️ Read the first drop from our winter issue! Hit the road w/ Fede Perelmuter in AMERICAN FIRE SALE | NOTES ON A WESTWARD JOURNEY 🚗 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

Hope to see you in Dallas in April! This is gonna be special!

💥 Frontera. Is. Back. 🗓️ Mark your calendars. This one's gonna be nuts.

“A song about the cheap-pop enthusiasms of Reagan’s Morning in America, juxtaposed against the violent and illegal meddling the administration was happily doing in Central and South America. The opening salvo is a synth-pop clinic in malevolent wonder.”

“Boys of summer in the dead of winter.” ❄️ So you thought Don Henley was kind of a dick? Well, turns out he is but... New writing by The Paranoid Style + track premiere from the upcoming album KNOWN ASSOCIATES 💥 southwestreview.com/track-premie...

Dial up the weird & dive into this review of Sophie Strohmeier's novella ALL GIRLS BE MINE ALONE 🌪️ Read Amanda Maret Scharf on the goods & grab your copy now via Joyland Publishing 💥 southwestreview.com/sapphic-magic/

📌ICYMI, maybe our best cover??? Grab yours pronto: southwestreview.com/subscribe/

📌ICYMI, we hit the mf ground RUNNING with a stacked TOC Subscribe here: southwestreview.com/subscribe/

🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨 Leaving 2025 in the dust is our inspo tbh 🌪️ Shot by John Thatcher Grip your copy now feat: @coryoldweiler.bsky.social @meganabbott.bsky.social @josephgrantham.bsky.social @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @tylerdunston.bsky.social @briannaduggan.bsky.social & more…

I had the good fortune of contributing a little something to (I hope!) accentuate the piece by the always formidable @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social!

This was so much fun to do. And I bet some of you can guess what movie I write about based on the needle drop I picked (below).

Kickin’ off 2K26 w/ some HEAT 🔥 Peep our winter season TOC & pray for us sinners 🙏 feat: @coryoldweiler.bsky.social @meganabbott.bsky.social @josephgrantham.bsky.social @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @tylerdunston.bsky.social & more… Subscribe: southwestreview.com/subscribe/

Artículo de Lisa Dillman sobre la traducción de groserías y blasfemias: «On Swearing in Translation», en la «Southwest Review» 110:2 (2025). (Gracias, Lisa, por la mención.)

BLOODLINE is full of “characters motivated by ill intentions, bludgeoned with moments of dark comedy.” 📌ICYMI, P.S. Dean reviews the second novel by Lee Clay Johnson via Panamerica Books southwestreview.com/the-south-di...

And just like that, we back! New KNOWN ASSOCIATES is now live, and in this ep Elizabeth Nelson hits the studio w/ the legend Jessica Hopper 💥 Listen below courtesy of @newponytx.bsky.social southwestreview.com/known-associ...

Bill on Abel. This is so good.

🚨 New review today Lee Clay Johnson “casts a spell of characters on the fringes of society meeting nefarious and often brutal ends.” Read P.S. Dean's review of BLOODLINE & grab a stocking stuffer via Panamerica Books 💥 southwestreview.com/the-south-di...

You think you know about Santa? Think again tbh 🎅 Kevin Sampsell Christmas oracle, spits hard facts about the holiday in THE 24 DAYS OF XMAS out now via @futuretensebooks.bsky.social ❄️ southwestreview.com/the-24-days-...

The Paranoid Style is back w/ another banger off their upcoming album KNOWN ASSOCIATES via @barnonerecords.bsky.social 🔥 Listen to WHITE WINE WHATEVER below & chug your way through Elizabeth's ultimate wine-themed playlist 🍷 southwestreview.com/track-premie...

New memoir from Abel Ferrara out now and who better to review the goods than our certified movie-guru @wmboyle4.bsky.social NOBODY. THAT'S WHO. 😤 southwestreview.com/abel-ferrara...

I reviewed Ana Paula Maia's novel On Earth As It Is Beneath for @southwestreview.bsky.social. Read it here: southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...

“Hailed as South America’s answer to Cormac McCarthy,” Ana Paula Maia is back w/ a new novel ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH (trans Padma Viswanathan) ✨ Read @bopgoth.bsky.social’s review below & grab it now via @charcopress.com southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...

Happy 88th to Ridley Scott—I wrote for @southwestreview.bsky.social about his misunderstood and marrow-sick masterpiece of the End Times, THE COUNSELOR. Not a noir thriller, or a cowboy noir, or a crime film at all; rather, THE COUNSELOR is Scott’s soap opera of the Grand Guignol.

This Black Friday grab the gift that's gonna make all the haters jelly Sign up for a 1 year (or more) subscription & you'll get a David Lynch tote (designed by Barry Gifford), a SwR back issue, & INVASION 88 (Argentine punk comp LP) to put under the tree 🎄 Purchase: southwestreview.com/subscribe/

“RELEASE THE HORSE situates itself squarely in the space between Appalachian folklore and gonzo cosmic horror.” 📌 ICYMI, Andy Davidson reviews Matthew Mitchell’s story collection, out now via @filthyloot.bsky.social southwestreview.com/if-you-care-...

“Chelosky’s not going for shock value—the tenderness of the bruises is too visible.” 📌 ICYMI, Laura Albert reviews FEMALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC by Danielle Chelosky out now via Far West Press southwestreview.com/cracking-the...

dawg, I could not have asked for a more personally affecting review lmao bless @southwestreview.bsky.social and the incredible Andy fuckin Davidson

“Wondrously weird and utterly familiar and of a world that’s doomed.” 🕳️ RELEASE THE HORSE, Matthew Mitchell’s debut horror collection, is out now via @filthyloot.bsky.social Only fitting to have our fave horror king Andy Davidson review the goodz 🖤 southwestreview.com/if-you-care-...

📣 New review today! Laura Albert writes: “Chelosky’s book impresses with the sense that we are being asked to pay careful attention to what is beneath the text.” FEMALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC by Danielle Chelosky is out now via Far West Press ✨ southwestreview.com/cracking-the...

“SEA, POISON is populated by funny moments of characters being well read and into literary history.” 📌 ICYMI, Kevin Sampsell reviews the new Caren Beilin novel, out now via New Directions southwestreview.com/the-good-kin...

💥 New review today! Read Kevin Sampsell on SEA, POISON by the "incendiary and very funny writer" Caren Beilin, out now via New Directions southwestreview.com/the-good-kin...

🎙️ We're back with the second episode of our new podcast KNOWN ASSOCIATES, hosted by Elizabeth Nelson In this ep, Elizabeth talks with @dbtph.bsky.social from @drivebytruckers.bsky.social about the past, present, & future of all things DBT & PH 💥 southwestreview.com/known-associ...

⏰ Clock's ticking bbs! Our Submittable page opens 01 DEC Do. Not. Snooze.

New piece from me @southwestreview.bsky.social on Brenda Lozano’s MOTHERS, trans. by Heather Cleary. Loved this novel, particularly the way it explores how “Fear and love are not separate things; on the contrary, they’re like two fires. One doubles the other.”

💥 New review today! “A thriller with a social consciousness,” MOTHERS by Brenda Lozano (tr. Heather Cleary is out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social’s take below... southwestreview.com/fear-and-lov...

⏰ It's that time of year! ONLY your BEST. NO holds barred. NO excuses! 🥊

Fantastic novel that I wrote about and contextualized in terms of DSP’s career. My @southwestreview.bsky.social piece from this past summer is here:

Yes!!!

Happy mf HALLOWEEN!!!! 🎃 To finish our month-long fright-fest, read HE MADE ME by @charleneelsby.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...