Pas de Don’t is Chloe Angyal’s first novel, a story of romance informed by the author’s years spent reporting on gender and power in American ballet. Angyal, an Australian-born writer now based out of Coralville, is the author of the 2021 nonfiction book Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from […]
Kelsey Conrad
Book Reviews: ‘hush hush hush’ by Audra Kerr Brown
In hush hush hush (Small Harbor Publishing), Audra Kerr Brown’s writing turns the mundane to horror. This chapbook is a collection of Brown’s flash fiction, some of which has previously been published across journals and literary magazines over the years. Many of the stories contained within have won awards and been included in the editions […]
Book Review: ‘The Emergent’ by Nick Holmberg
In Nick Holmberg’s debut novel, The Emergent (Koehler Books), he asks whether we can come to understand and know a person through the way they tell their story. The book shows the psychological and moral growth of the narrator, a young woman named Kat, as she challenges her audience to piece together the account she […]

