ALR reviewed on NewPages.com

Hey everybody, have you caught our glowing review over at NewPages yet?

Here's a teaser:

On Kaitlyn Palacios’s essay “The Waiver”...

"Palacios’s essay is an unfurling testament to memory, love, youth and nationhood, and it is an irony such as the husband’s statement that makes you suffer on her behalf. Her memories become the reader’s, as the cadence of her language echoes her conversion. The narrative is so well-crafted, ebbing and rushing in an almost oceanic pull, I am late for everything today for reading it, unable to rescue my index finger from holding the page."

On Kyle Mellen’s short story “Just Like A Man"...

"Mellen uses the voice as a clever ruse; what you perceive as an exercise in the voice of the typical American man takes a story wildly out of the formula’s context—when you might expect a certain outcome, you are arrested by escalating violence and grotesque murder in a nihilistic framework that will freeze your blood. The risk in the plot development is well-managed; I found the pacing to be virtuosic. I think the effort would be terrific even in translation."

On our poetry selection...

"From a layman’s perspective, many of the poems tend to inform each other and complement the prose while invoking tradition."

Thank you, Mary Florio, for your wonderful review!