In a climate of overlong films, sequels, and IP abuse, horror aces Blumhouse can normally be relied upon to turn in standalone, brisk genre pieces. Their latest film to, ahem, drop, a high-concept thriller with horror elements is no exception. Meghann…

Born in the US, but now based in the north-east, J. Archer Avary is a poet and his latest collection is spry and stuffed with little vignettes, from the quotidian (‘A Game of Scrabble Down at the Hotspur’) to the pithily observational (“being mean is what…

Uttama Kirit Patel has been a semi-finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and she’s also been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her debut novel concerns Lina who lives with her husband Ishaan and his …