issue 36 > nonfiction

• Reviews

• Avital Gad-Cykman. Life In, Life Out

  review by Antonio Carlos Santos

  Avital Gad-Cykman’s fine debut collection Life In, Life Out is a book of flashes, or rather, rapid illuminations of everyday situations.

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• Katherine Hastings. Nighthawks

  by Tim Suermondt

  In her latest book of poems, Katherine Hastings threads together a lot of subjects in a crisp, moving, and lyrical style.

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• Thomas, Shapard, and Merrill, eds. Flash Fiction International

  by Miriam N. Kotzin

  Flash Fiction International:  Very Short Stories from Around the World is a generously edited collection of 86 stories accompanied by not only an expected introduction and contributor’s notes, but also a selection of comments on flash theory by a number of well-known authors.  

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• Art

• Landscapes of Love

  by Donald Kuspit

  Reviewing the Paris “Salon of 1859,” Edmond and Jules de Goncourt declared:  “Landscape is the victor of modern art,” adding that “it is the pride of nineteenth-century painting.”  It was a defensive response to new social realities, to modernity itself, epitomized by the industrialization of society, threatening the death of nature, and more insidiously, the death of man by depriving him of nature.  

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