TERSE. Journal

From Pandemonium to Eden – Hieronymus Bosch by Jason Collins

Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter who researchers are still studying and learning new things about today. This is not surprising considering he is believed to be born somewhere between 1450 and 1456 in a Dutch city called s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Bosch’s art style is mostly oil paint on panels and focuses on aspects…
365 Books in 365 Days – Episode 167 by Annie Walton Doyle

Death Valley by Melissa Broder “I came to escape a feeling – an attempt that’s already going poorly, because unfortunately I’ve brought myself with me, and I see, as the pink light creeps out to infinity, that I am still the kind of person who makes another person’s coma about me.” There are certain authors…
Anamorphosis by J.Y. Tan

Everyone I meet is someone else entirely. I’m convinced there’s something larger than life in the greenish-yellow fog around your neckline. Are you home yet? I think about my friends 3 years away & hope they’re fine. If given a chance to be anonymous, I wouldn’t take it because apart from these roundabouts there’s nothing…
Chouette: A Review by T.S. McNeil

Things are not always as they seem. What appears normal, even ordinary, can turn out to be a dream. Prose fiction is particularly tricky, particularly in terms of the narrative. The oddest things put in the most casual ways. Chouette by American author Claire Oshetsky is the strangest sort of weird. The one that comes…
13! by Alisson Madrigal

Kiara’s name is “Kiara Kariri.” Read this in my 6 y.o. voice. Fiamma is a title (one has a form to quickly announce, tell others, and also to pressure these into a utility for the larger whole of the territory-in-construction).It’s more like a role than an individual, implying a level of uniqueness. Initial development: ‘Finally,…
365 Books in 365 Days – Episode 161 by Annie Walton Doyle

Pure Color by Sheila Heti “What do humans go to art for, but to locate within themselves that inward-turning eye, which breathes significance into all of existence-for what is art but the act of infusing matter with the breath of God?” If you’ve ever read Sheila Heti before, the themes and questions of Pure Color…
Bizarrely Beautiful: Derek Weisberg by Jason Collins

Derek Weisberg is an American sculptor that creates ceramic sculptures that resemble the human anatomy yet do not fully look human. His humanlike ceramic creations have garnered Weisberg many awards while studying and has allowed the world to see his artwork. Below we will explore the bizarrely beautiful artworks created by Weisberg and who he…
The History of Rain: A Review By T.S. Mcneil

When is a war not a war, or when does a war really end? Can the impacts ever really be shaken off until every person who remembers it is dead? For Canadian novelist Stephens Gerard Malone, the answer is no, at least if his novel The History of Rain is anything to go by. Written…
Braving the Days: It Was Grace by Jordannah Elizabeth

It began, an hour ago, while I was doing everything I could not to think. I’ve been to the doctors, and when folks believed I slipped away, the psychiatrists said, you’re clairaudient. They were respectful enough to acknowledge it, so when I hear opinions, plans, love and complaints of others, I’m likely attuned. Tonight, I…
365 Books in 365 Days – Episode 151 BY Annie Walton Doyle

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn “My human coworker sometimes talks about not wanting to work, and then he’ll say something quite odd and rather silly. What is it he says, now? There’s more to a person than the work they do, or A person is more than just…