Skip to content
BERKELEY FICTION REVIEW

BERKELEY FICTION REVIEW

  • Home
  • About
    • Our Team
    • Notable Contributors
    • Sponsor Us
    • Contact Us
  • Journal
    • Order
    • Past Issues
  • Magazine
    • Announcements
    • Book Reviews
    • Commentaries
    • Fiction
    • Interviews
    • Personal Essays
    • Visuals
  • Submit
    • Art
    • Comics
    • Short Fiction
    • Sudden Fiction Contest Submissions

Category: Magazine

March 30, 2022March 27, 2022 Corina Chen Magazine, Personal Essays

My Animals: How Susan Orlean’s On Animals Taught Me the Value of Human-Animal Crossings

By reading On Animals, I remembered my animals.

March 7, 2022March 2, 2022 Kristy Choung Magazine

Uncoupled Love: A Review of “Marriage Quarantine” by Kate Walbert

Kate Walbert redefines marriage by exploring its disjointed sides during a pandemic.

March 4, 2022March 1, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Interviews, Magazine

A Box of Ingredients: Interview with Beth Piatote, Sudden Fiction Guest Judge and Author of The Beadworkers: Stories

I think about other Native people who may read that piece and can, through the piece, feel a connection to those lands...feel that they are there.

January 3, 2022January 2, 2022 Trisha Iley Book Reviews, Magazine

Coarsely, Shockingly Real: A Review of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Unlikeable main characters abound in modern fiction, and this novel does not break that mold.

November 24, 2021November 23, 2021 Julia Cheunkarndee Interviews, Magazine

An Element of Sacrifice: Interview with Emily Dezurick-Badran, author of Issue 41 story “Remainder”

Sacrifice can be this totally joyful choice that people make, which is something that I've come to terms with more, recently.

October 4, 2021October 13, 2021 Julia Cheunkarndee Interviews, Magazine

Working with Waves and Watercolors: Interview with Mikaela Kristianous, Artist of Issue 41 Piece Regarding the Sea

I definitely take inspiration from the skies, like I mentioned, flowers, even food: strawberries, raspberries, those kinds of things.

September 29, 2021September 27, 2021 Julia Cheunkarndee Interviews, Magazine

Being Led by Joy: Interview with K-Ming Chang, Author of Issue 41 Story “Haiyang”

I wanted to bring water into these places that are sterile or dry or drought-ridden.

August 23, 2021August 22, 2021 Chloe Moody Book Reviews, Magazine

A Love Letter to Slasher Cinema: A Review of My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

A horror novel should hold my attention sooner than eighty percent of the way through the book. 

April 26, 2021April 23, 2021 Aaron Saliman Commentaries, Magazine

The surprisingly radical politics of Pixar’s WALL-E

It seems that our brave little robot is actually part of a much larger political-ecological revolution.

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction, Magazine

The Jumper and the Gaijin

Nora learns “gaijin” when she hears the teenagers say it. She’s not heard an adult use it, and when it’s said in her proximity the eikaiwa manager turns stern and scolds the student. So while she knows that it means “outsider,” it must mean something else, something a little shameful, the kind of word said only at home.

Posts navigation

Older posts
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
BERKELEY FICTION REVIEW
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Follow Following
    • BERKELEY FICTION REVIEW
    • Join 746 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • BERKELEY FICTION REVIEW
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...