The Seaboard Review of Books
Issue Date: Monday, July 20, 2026
We're taking a wee break, so there will not be a July 27th issue next week. We'll be back August 3rd.
In this issue:
Silver Lake by Alex Pugsley (Fiction)
Vidal: A Graphic Novel by Danila Botha (Fiction, Graphic Novel)
Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Narratives by Gyllian Phillips (Non-Fiction)
Earth for Sale by Maude Barlow (Non-Fiction)
The Wiki of Babel by Kyle Flemmer (Poetry)
Living History: Essays on A.F. Moritz (Poetry)
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Narratives by Gyllian Phillips
Call of the Wild. Little House in the Big Woods. Thoreau’s musings in Massachusetts, Cheryl Strayed’s revelations on the Pacific Crest Trail. These wilderness adventure narratives are much loved, for good reason—they speak to yearnings felt by the urbanized citizen for a simpler life in which artifice falls away, and we find our true, inner self shining…
Earth for Sale by Maude Barlow
In Earth for Sale: The Fight to Stop the Last Plunder of the Planet, Maude Barlow discusses the “financialization” of nature, and offers cautionary examples that show why this trend is problematic.
Poetry
The Wiki of Babel by Kyle Flemmer
Part poetry collection, part DIY instruction manual for making your own poems, The Wiki of Babel is just the starting point for a conversation that continues off the page. Kyle Flemmer, ever the experimentalist, has devised a set of five poem-making protocols for selecting and remixing text from Wikipedia. The protocols, which involve a mélange of rando…
Michael Greenstein Reviews
July’s Saturday Short
