@mwatsonfore
Writer, artist, and literary critic based in Boulder, Colorado
[Review] Slow Guillotine, by Teo Rivera-Dundas | Full Stop
[Review] Slow Guillotine, by Teo Rivera-Dundas | Full Stop
We are drowning, choking, and sputtering on the saline logic of late capitalism: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
[Panel Recording] A Song of Mothers and Daughters -- Author Panel with Charis Books & More
[Panel Recording] A Song of Mothers and Daughters -- Author Panel with Charis Books & More
Charis welcomes Shelby Hinte (Howling Women), Tamara Jong (Worldly Girls), Madeline McDonnell (Lonesome Ballroom), and Lauren W. Westerfield (Woman House) fo...
Jeffrey Epstein Used Dr. James Dobson’s Advice to Groom a Victim — The Revealer
Jeffrey Epstein Used Dr. James Dobson’s Advice to Groom a Victim — The Revealer
The harmful effects of Dobson's work and why Epstein utilized the Focus on the Family founder's writing
Critic at Play | McKenzie Watson-Fore | Substack
Critic at Play | McKenzie Watson-Fore | Substack
[Essay] Christian Nationalism and the Dubious Possibility of Change, at MAYDAY
[Essay] Christian Nationalism and the Dubious Possibility of Change, at MAYDAY
This essay is written by MAYDAY magazine’s Critic in Residence For the previous three pieces in this critical residency, I’ve focused on evangelicalism, the intersections of Christian and mainstream literature, and the collision of pop culture and evangelical subculture. For my fourth piece, I want to turn the lens toward…
[Review] Everything in Color: A Love Story by Stephanie Stalvey at Hippocampus
[Review] Everything in Color: A Love Story by Stephanie Stalvey at Hippocampus
"Stephanie Stalvey and I grew up in similar strains of evangelicalism, both of us learning at a young age that we were sinners who deserved to spend eternity in hell." --McKenzie Watson-Fore
[News Article] CU delays ChatGPT rollout after backlash over $2M OpenAI deal - Boulder Reporting Lab
[News Article] CU delays ChatGPT rollout after backlash over $2M OpenAI deal - Boulder Reporting Lab
After announcing a systemwide ChatGPT partnership, CU delayed student access following backlash over governance, academic integrity and transparency.
[Review] Seeking a Way In: Woman House by Lauren W. Westerfield - The Rumpus
[Review] Seeking a Way In: Woman House by Lauren W. Westerfield - The Rumpus
Thunderdome Conference
Thunderdome Conference
8 Books Featuring Cathartic Bathhouse Scenes - Electric Literature
8 Books Featuring Cathartic Bathhouse Scenes - Electric Literature
[Review] Trained to disappear: Famished by Anna Rollins | The Christian Century
[Review] Trained to disappear: Famished by Anna Rollins | The Christian Century
Anna Rollins’s memoir examines purity culture, disordered eating, and the cost of being a good Christian...
[Essay] Please Don't Make Fun of God | Mayday magazine
[Essay] Please Don't Make Fun of God | Mayday magazine
This essay is written by MAYDAY magazine’s Critic in Residence This past summer, my partner Michael and I attended the wedding of two of our friends. One of them grew up in a Y2K prepper cult in Eastern…
[Review] La Carte Postale, by Ann Berest | Cincinnati Romance Review
[Review] La Carte Postale, by Ann Berest | Cincinnati Romance Review
One Monday morning in January 2003, Lélia receives an anonymous postcard bearing nothing but four names—Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie, Jacques: the names of Lélia’s maternal grandparents, aunt, and uncle, all of whom died in Auschwitz in 1942. The circumstances surrounding this mysterious postcard, and
[Review] Hymn to Moray Eels – Mireille Best | Full Stop
[Review] Hymn to Moray Eels – Mireille Best | Full Stop
Why love a boy just on the basis of his boy-ness?
[Essay] Singing the Newsboys with Flamy Grant | The Christian Century
[Essay] Singing the Newsboys with Flamy Grant | The Christian Century
[Review] Getting Dressed in the Dark, by Gabriella D’Italia | Heavy Feather Review
[Review] Getting Dressed in the Dark, by Gabriella D’Italia | Heavy Feather Review
The crisis that catalyzes Gabriella D’Italia’s debut memoir, Getting Dressed in the Dark: An Artist’s Way Home, is a gruesome separation and divorce, when D’Italia learns that her partner of twenty…
[Review] Worldly Girls, by Tamara Jong | Full Stop
[Review] Worldly Girls, by Tamara Jong | Full Stop
This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
[Review essay] The Year of the Fundamentalist Escape Memoir
[Review essay] The Year of the Fundamentalist Escape Memoir
[Review] Lonesome Ballroom, featured in the print issue of Rain Taxi Review of Books
[Review] Lonesome Ballroom, featured in the print issue of Rain Taxi Review of Books
[Essay] The Silo of Spirituality at Mayday
[Essay] The Silo of Spirituality at Mayday
Christ icon in the Chapel of St. Augustine near Sveti Duh na Ostrem vrhu. Photo by Clemens Stockner (via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) This essay is written by MAYDAY magazine’s Critic in Residence for Spring and Summer 2025. When you grow up religious, you grow up steeped in media the likes of which secular folks cannot even imagine. Some of…
An Interview with Natasha Lehrer, Translator of Sad Tiger - The Masters Review
An Interview with Natasha Lehrer, Translator of Sad Tiger - The Masters Review
Video Chat with Jon Mathieu of The Christian Century
Video Chat with Jon Mathieu of The Christian Century
Substack Live with Cara Meredith: Revisiting Cry Night
Substack Live with Cara Meredith: Revisiting Cry Night
[Essay] Dear Jesus, Am I broken enough yet? at Christian Century
[Essay] Dear Jesus, Am I broken enough yet? at Christian Century
[Review] After David by Catherine Texier, at Full Stop
[Review] After David by Catherine Texier, at Full Stop
Interview with For Page & Screen Magazine
Interview with For Page & Screen Magazine
[Review] Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, trans. Natasha Lehrer, at Full Stop
[Review] Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, trans. Natasha Lehrer, at Full Stop
The Gravel Path of Belief, Non-Belief, and the Ambiguous In-Between
The Gravel Path of Belief, Non-Belief, and the Ambiguous In-Between
The Crowd Collective on Pearl Street, for Boulder Reporting Lab
The Crowd Collective on Pearl Street, for Boulder Reporting Lab
[Review] Howling Women by Shelby Hinte, at Full Stop
[Review] Howling Women by Shelby Hinte, at Full Stop
Panel Recording: Art Under Duress with Jaydra Johnson, Elizabeth Cooperman, and Eula Biss
Panel Recording: Art Under Duress with Jaydra Johnson, Elizabeth Cooperman, and Eula Biss
Book List for the webinar/panel, via Bookshop
Book List for the webinar/panel, via Bookshop
[Review] Making Love with the Land, at Full Stop
[Review] Making Love with the Land, at Full Stop
What I Learned About Monetization by Launching a Lit Mag, in Lit Mag News
What I Learned About Monetization by Launching a Lit Mag, in Lit Mag News
[Essay] Christmas Eve at Calvary Bible, in For Page and Screen
[Essay] Christmas Eve at Calvary Bible, in For Page and Screen
[Local Reporting] Boulder County's Caribou Ranch Artist-in-Residence Program
[Local Reporting] Boulder County's Caribou Ranch Artist-in-Residence Program
[Blog post] On quitting my job! -- No Longer the Liquor Girl
[Blog post] On quitting my job! -- No Longer the Liquor Girl
[Video Interview] PACT (Pacific Alumni Craft Talks) with Ben Porter
[Video Interview] PACT (Pacific Alumni Craft Talks) with Ben Porter
[Review] The Propagandist, at Full Stop
[Review] The Propagandist, at Full Stop
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[Review] Family Meal by Bryan Washington, at Bridge Eight
[Review] Family Meal by Bryan Washington, at Bridge Eight
[Interview] To Bisquick and Beyond, at Boulder Magazine
[Interview] To Bisquick and Beyond, at Boulder Magazine
[Review] Low: Notes on Art and Trash, at Full Stop
[Review] Low: Notes on Art and Trash, at Full Stop
Board Game Instructions for Purity—Race to the Altar, in The Offing
Board Game Instructions for Purity—Race to the Altar, in The Offing
[Essay] To Cut the Rot From the Fruit, in Belmont Story Review
[Essay] To Cut the Rot From the Fruit, in Belmont Story Review
[Essay] the girl who dressed as a turd, at sneaker wave
[Essay] the girl who dressed as a turd, at sneaker wave
My blog at MWatsonFore.com
My blog at MWatsonFore.com
[Review] Search Histories, at Full Stop
[Review] Search Histories, at Full Stop
[Review] The Weird Sister Collection, at Full Stop
[Review] The Weird Sister Collection, at Full Stop
[Interview] with Margo Steines, at Full Stop
[Interview] with Margo Steines, at Full Stop
[Review] Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom, at Full Stop
[Review] Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom, at Full Stop
[Essay] The Chicken Harvest, at Psaltery & Lyre
[Essay] The Chicken Harvest, at Psaltery & Lyre
[Review] The Inconsistent Insight of Leslie Jamison's Splinters, at the San Antonio Review
[Review] The Inconsistent Insight of Leslie Jamison's Splinters, at the San Antonio Review
[Essay] The Problem with the Evangelical Story Structure, at Write or Die magazine
[Essay] The Problem with the Evangelical Story Structure, at Write or Die magazine
[Review] The Loneliness Files, at Barrelhouse
[Review] The Loneliness Files, at Barrelhouse
[Review] Brutalities: A Love Story, at Full Stop
[Review] Brutalities: A Love Story, at Full Stop
[Review] Because We Were Christian Girls, at Colorado Review online
[Review] Because We Were Christian Girls, at Colorado Review online
[Review] Shannon Harris’s Exvangelical Reckoning and the Slow Excavation of the Self, at New Critique
[Review] Shannon Harris’s Exvangelical Reckoning and the Slow Excavation of the Self, at New Critique
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