The Winter 2022 issue of Black Fox Literary Magazine is upon us! Thank you to our contributors for allowing us to continue to publish great work! We’d also like to thank our loyal readers and the Black Fox community. We wouldn’t be…
Novel excerpt from Hockey Moms by Eric Rasmussen
On screen the audience sees an empty gravel lot behind the metal wall of a municipal sports arena. Where the crushed stone stops a line of arbor vitae protects the no-man’s-land strip of grass and the handful of buildings farther…
The Anniversary Issue (#21) is Here!
Happy Birthday to us! Issue #21 is officially our anniversary issue. Ten years of publication history and twenty-one issues! We are still standing! BIG thank you to our contributors, the BFLM community, and everyone who has supported us throughout the…
A Review of Johannes Anyuru’s They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears by Linnea Gradin
One of the biggest literary awards for Swedish literature is the August Prize (Augustpriset). It takes its name from one of Sweden’s most famous authors — the fin de siècle playwright and novelist August Strindberg (known for works such as…
Arabesques by David Massey
I have read critics who referred to Henry James’s syntax as involute and to William Faulkner’s as convolute. I do not know that there is any real distinction to be made between the two descriptions; both styles are arabesque; and…
The Sun Also Rises: An Appreciation by David Massey
An old friend of mine dismissed Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises as a period piece. Let’s examine that a bit. In the first place, all novels are period pieces. The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote de la Mancha, and…