The American Dissident: Literature, Democracy & Dissidence
Caustically Critical Reviews
The editor is not an aficionado of the kind of backslapping so pervasive in the literary milieu, both high and low brow.
Only a fool, "brilliant" or whatever, would run out to buy a book or literary journal because someone "brilliant" or whatever endorsed it with the usual suspect vocabulary "brilliant," "cutting edge," "great," "original" "one of the world's most significant," "one of the best," "stunningly beautiful," "innovative," etc., etc. For more such banal terms, examine my correspondance with the editors of New Pages, which unsurprisingly refuses to list The American Dissident with the many other magazines listed.
Reviews appearing in The American Dissident are negative and serve as counterweights to the smiley-faced reviews appearing in most other magazines.