Colorado Review
Current Issue: Spring 2026
Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Teen Queen Training: Essays after The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining, 1963
The experience of reading Kristine Langley Mahler’s Teen Queen Training is not unlike reading a...
Lost Cities
What this book cares about most: Lost cities; places that change each time we try...
Sea, Poison
“Why Sea? Why Poison?” asks Cumin Baleen, the narrator of Caren Beilin’s novel Sea, Poison:...
The Master of Contradictions
Thomas Mann’s magnum opus, The Magic Mountain, tells the story of young engineer Hans Castorp,...
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Interviews & Recordings
A Conversation with Darius Stewart
Associate Editor Bel Mercado talks with Darius Stewart about his memoir, Be Not Afraid of...
May 14, 2026
A Conversation with Maya Bernstein-Schalet
Maya Bernstein-Schalet discusses “Down and Out in Disneyland,” featured in the Summer 2025 issue of...
Apr 30, 2026
A Conversation with Keith Stahl
Editorial assistant Aliza Anderson-Diepenbrock discusses multigenre publication and more with Keith Stahl, whose essay “Rabid”...
Apr 09, 2026















