Book Reviews

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  • Soft Apocalypse

    Soft Apocalypse

    By Leah Nieboer

    Leah Nieboer’s stunning debut collection of poems, Soft Apocalypse, captures the visceral experience of a...

    $19.95
  • Shy

    Shy

    By Max Porter

    Shy is Max Porter’s fourth novel, after Grief is a Thing with Feathers and Lonny,...

    $25
  • Āina Hānau / Birth Land

    Āina Hānau / Birth Land

    By Brandy Nālani McDougall

    In the title poem of Āina Hānau / Birth Land, Brandy Nālani McDougall asks, “na...

    $16.95
  • Living Room

    Living Room

    By Laura Bylenok

    The 1977 educational film Powers of Ten begins with an aerial view of a couple...

    $17.95
  • Owlish

    Owlish

    By Dorothy Tse (Translated by Natascha Bruce)

    Professor Q is typical, in many ways, of the “modern protagonist”: so unfulfilled at work...

    $16
  • Brother Poem

    Brother Poem

    By Will Harris

    In Will Harris’s Brother Poem, the lines between reality and dreamscapes blur, and readers dwell...

    $15.95
  • Live in Suspense

    Live in Suspense

    By David Groff

    Midlife is a reckoning with our experience of time. The past seems impossibly far away....

    $18
  • Winter Stranger

    Winter Stranger

    By Jackson Holbert

    Jackson Holbert’s debut collection, Winter Stranger, winner of the Milkweed Editions 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry...

    $22
  • Piano in the Dark

    Piano in the Dark

    By Nancy Naomi Carlson

    Set during the wider context of the global pandemic and within the personal history of...

    $17.00
  • Shoot the Horses First

    Shoot the Horses First

    By Leah Angstman

    Orphan trains. Discovery of new moss species. Anti/love stories across race, ability, and socioeconomic class....

    $18.99
  • Because We Were Christian Girls

    Because We Were Christian Girls

    By Virgie Townsend

    The first time I read Virgie Townsend’s debut short story collection, Because We Were Christian...

    $9.95
  • Chariot

    Chariot

    By Timothy Donnelly

    Form and voice unite the lyrical menagerie of Chariot, Timothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poetry....

    $18.00
  • Pretend It's My Body

    Pretend It’s My Body

    By Luke Dani Blue

    Luke Dani Blue’s debut collection Pretend It’s My Body: Stories places trans and queer people’s...

    $17.95
  • The Daughter of Man

    The Daughter of Man

    By L. J. Sysko

    Forgive me the spoiler, but L. J. Sysko’s debut poetry collection The Daughter of Man...

    $13.46
  • A Duration

    A Duration

    By Richard Meier

    It seems it’s been taking me longer and longer to complete these reviews lately, and...

    $18.00
  • Your Kingdom

    Your Kingdom

    By Eleni Sikelianos

    In her tenth book of poetry, Your Kingdom, Eleni Sikelianos offers an exploration of life’s...

  • Western Journeys

    Western Journeys

    By Teow Lim Goh

    Teow Lim Goh’s Western Journeys delves into the heart of what it means to be...

    $21.95