Archive - The Subtext Review

Breakdown: 'Calypso's Guest' by Andrew Sean Greer

A study in narrative poise

13 hrs ago • Neil Czeszejko

Graphic Review: 'Fish and Water' by Gengoroh Tagame

The world, room by room

Feb 17 • Neil Czeszejko

In the Flesh: Wrestlers in a Circus (1909)

Form in motion, no. 3

Feb 11 • Nino Shaskin

Review: 'All that Refuses to Die' by Michael Imossan

Tracing the geometry of a body shaped like thirst

Feb 3 • Neil Czeszejko

January 2026

A Short-Term Lease on the Air

Theology of the pause

Jan 28 • RUIIN

Review: 'The Disappointment' by Scott Broker

Through the fissures of being, fractured and uncontainable

Jan 20 • Neil Czeszejko

Breakdown: 'My Roommate from Hell' by Cale Dietrich

A study in narrative strain

Jan 14 • Neil Czeszejko

Graphic Review: 'The Voice Said Kill' by Si Spurrier

What the bayou keeps

Jan 7 • Neil Czeszejko

The Softest Point of Contact

Machinery of the bare

Jan 1 • RUIIN

December 2025

Review: 'Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die' by Greer Stothers

Liminal lives, dangerous prophecies, and the pleasures of the in-between

Dec 30, 2025 • Neil Czeszejko

In the Flesh: In the Waves (1889)

Form in motion, no. 2

Dec 23, 2025 • Nino Shaskin

Graphic Review: 'Flip Flip Slowly' by Mame Ohtako

In a town that seems to stand still, attention travels far

Dec 16, 2025 • Neil Czeszejko

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