According to Hurwit’s features of the Archaic style, there are several common themes of this time period — “reliance on schemata,” “impulse for pattern,” “domination of surface and plane,” linearity, ornamentality, and “explicitness and impassivity.” While these are obviously traits…
A Review of George Saunder’s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by David Massey
Doubtless George Saunders’s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life has been reviewed to a frazzle by now, but I also believe many of Black Fox’s…
Is this Novel Homeward Bound? By David Massey
I want to say a few words about what to me is a slippery subject: narrative arc. Not so much in the short story: I know what a short story is, and I am able to achieve the single effect…
Black Fox Literary Magazine Issue #20 is Here!
The Winter 2021 issue of Black Fox Literary Magazine is here at last! Thank you to our contributors and loyal readers who stuck by us as we tried to get this issue off the ground. We have a lot in…
Black Fox Literary Magazine Issue #19 is Here!
The Spring 2020 issue of Black Fox Literary Magazine has been a long time coming! We want to thank our contributors and the community that stuck behind us during our hiatus. We appreciate your immense patience as we worked to…
Formidable Force: A Review of Lee Ann Roripaugh’s tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 by Brandy Underwood
Browsing through the table of contents in Lee Ann Roripaugh’s tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, there is an unencumbered feeling of veracity. Switching between references to a tsunami like it is a feral entity and classic superheroes, the battle is…