Guest Posts

Doing poetry wrong, confusing suicides, chronic pain, and Jane Birkin

Discordia (Book) Reviews for June 2026

Jun 25 • Discordia Review, Sire, and Andrew Wu

Why Indigenous literature sucks

A transcript of an extremely discursive discussion of Indigenous identity.

Jun 18 • Eris, Tara McGowan-Ross, and Discordia Review

The unbearable Andy Weir's "science teacher fiction"

Taking on the extremely annoying novel and film 'Project Hail Mary'

Jun 15 • Cade Jameson and Discordia Review

How arts grants ate the arts audience

What happens to lit when a city (and a country) writes for nobody?

Jun 4 • Discordia Review

Reading Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital' will make you a liberal (pejorative)

The 2024 Booker winner is crypto-centrist propaganda

Jun 2 • Dj Sandler and Discordia Review

DOGTV: It's TV "for dogs" and it will drive you insane and of course it's Israeli

Now look at them doggos, that's the way you do it.

May 22 • James Brine and Discordia Review

Shakespeare as literary critic

On the sly proto-modernism of "Love's Labour's Lost" and how the Bard remains one of our greatest teachers

Apr 10 • Sam Jennings and Discordia Review

OPINION: What I Would Say to My Students Today, in the Age of AI

Ryan Boudinot reflects on his own viral 2015 article on MFAs that is still generating controversy to this day

Apr 6 • Ryan Boudinot and Discordia Review

Discordia Review seeks book reviews and guest articles

You could be the next person ostracized from your literary faith community

Mar 28 • Discordia Review

OPINION: Actually, I'm begging for it

On the article "nobody asked for" that has the Montreal publishing scene choosing sides

Mar 13 • Rebecca Lawrence Lynch and Discordia Review

MAGA Minaj, Muhammad Ali, and the costs of Black canonization

On the endless, useless and ahistorical saint/sinner binary applied to Black icons.

Mar 11 • Hilde von Bingen and Discordia Review

Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty' and the death (or not?) of African American literature

Notes on grappling with reality and Black petit bourgeois subject formation in the contemporary novel.

Feb 5 • Luke McGowan-Arnold and Discordia Review

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