Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is, by both artistic and political measures, one of the most important...
$23.99
Now It’s Dark
Written in a time of loss and disaffection, the fatigue in these poems is insidious....
$15.95
The Memory Eaters
Central to Elizabeth Kadetsky’s stellar collection of essays about the nature of memory and grief,...
$19.95
Things That Go
When disasters fly by faster than billboards, how are we to bear witness to them?...
$16.95
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
When Krys Malcolm Belc became pregnant with a son, he began to see his identity—not...
$26
The Melancholy of Anatomy
There’s a sense in The Melancholy of Anatomy that the grave intellect monitoring the process...
$18
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s first essay collection, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and...
$25
Get Thee to a Bakery
Get Thee to a Bakery opens with the title essay, in which Rick Bailey recounts...
$19.95
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest’s Deadliest Day
With a title like Shook and a subtitle that includes both the words earthquake and...
$19.95
Dear Ms. Schubert
Listen to the bird song. As Lipska writes,” “It’s just an untreated case of chronic...
$19.95
Abundance: A Novel
When Henry enters a Walmart to steal medicine for his sick child, he glances up...
$16.00
Wild Swims: Stories
Nors achieves exquisite interiority in these narratives, burrowing so precisely into a character’s memory and...
$15.00
trans(re)lating house one
Missaghi’s book maps the city and its dead, maps the way women move and act...
$17.95
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass is a call to action that combines memoir, Indigenous storytelling, and scientific writing....
$18.00
Let Me Think: Stories
The seventy-one pieces in this dexterous, surprising collection are often weird and unexpectedly weighty, particularly...
$16.00
The Animal at Your Side
In the absence of family, the self becomes sister, becomes multiple, becomes animal—more fiercely present...
$16.00
Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity
As we share the same codified language predilections, we share the same thoughts and perceptions....
$20.00
Sybelia Drive
The approach feels organic, echoing the experience of families receiving letters from Vietnam “in lots...
$18.95