Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
The Avian Hourglass
An unnamed town with an unnamed narrator are at the center of The Avian Hourglass’s...
$17.95
High Priestess of the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Disobedience
Christy Tending’s High Priestess of the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Disobedience brings together thirty-nine short...
$18
Silent Light
In this epic journey through brutalized, fractured communities within the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
$23
Final Engagement
Don’t read Christopher Izant’s memoir if you’re looking for answers. The author served as a...
$29.99
The Signalman
In Ezra Miles’s The Signalman, the weight of silence and solitude lowers and reshapes an...
$17
The Real Ethereal
Katie Naughton’s first book of poetry, The Real Ethereal, is as timely as it is...
$20
Four Fields
Dorinda Wegener’s debut collection Four Fields builds a world for the reader to step into...
$18
Fanling in October
Fanling in October opens with a journey back to Pui Ying Wong’s Hong Kong roots,...
$18
Beforelight
Incorporating a few of the poems and themes that appeared in his collection Night Logic,...
$18
To Be Named Something Else
Dripping with water and blood, bursting with song and mourning, dancing with ancestral and future...
$19.95
Synthetic Jungle
As I read Synthetic Jungle, the third full-length collection Michael Chang has published since 2021,...
$18
The Body Alone
In The Body Alone, Nina Lohman doesn’t shrink from the conundrum inherent in writing a...
$24
The Fifth Wound
Aurora Mattia’s first novel, The Fifth Wound, is many books in one. Sarah Gerard calls...
$19.95
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
“Ostensibly I write novels and stories,” Danielle Dutton writes at the start of “A Picture...
$17.95
Sinking Bell
When I first read Bojan Louis’s short story collection Sinking Bell, I was an MFA...
$16
The New Animals
For the people who do not inhabit them, islands have always only represented either a...
$16.95
Absolute Away
In Absolute Away, Lance Olsen develops three distinct “movements” to structure a novel that takes...
$17.95
Interrogating Travel
To read Paul Lindholdt’s Interrogating Travel is to receive a wellspring of lived experience about...
$29.95
The Roof of the Whale Poems
In Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and...
$18.95
A Calendar Is a Snakeskin
Kristine Langley Mahler, a married, thirty-eight year old mother of daughters, has reached a point...
$16
Nocturne in Joy
“My mother is Black / under the eyes in / twilight,” Tatiana Johnson-Boria writes in...
$12.99
I Want to Tell You
Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poetry in I Want to Tell You works toward a language of...
$18