REVIEW: “Dad Jokes” by David Lee Zweifler

Review of David Lee Zweifler, “Dad Jokes,” Radon Journal 9 (2025): 35 — Read online. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

At one page, Zweifler set expectations high before I even started reading it: You’ve really got to nail it, in such a short space. Between the title, and the opening lines that are filled with grief and uncertainty, I wasn’t sure if I was going to end up wholly let down by the end.

And I so wasn’t. That finally line brought a slightly anxious, slightly sad story into something flooded with hope.