Book Reviews

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  • The New Animals

    The New Animals

    By Pip Adam

    For the people who do not inhabit them, islands have always only represented either a...

    $16.95
  • Absolute Away

    Absolute Away

    By Lance Olsen

    In Absolute Away, Lance Olsen develops three distinct “movements” to structure a novel that takes...

    $17.95
  • Interrogating Travel

    Interrogating Travel

    By Paul Lindholdt

    To read Paul Lindholdt’s Interrogating Travel is to receive a wellspring of lived experience about...

    $29.95
  • The Roof of the Whale Poems

    The Roof of the Whale Poems

    By Juan Calzadilla (translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Olivia Lott)

    In Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and...

    $18.95
  • Via

    Via

    By Claire DeVoogd

    Claire DeVoogd’s debut collection of poetry is an exercise in weaving and reweaving, seaming and...

    $20
  • Nocturne in Joy

    Nocturne in Joy

    By Tatiana Johnson-Boria

    “My mother is Black / under the eyes in / twilight,” Tatiana Johnson-Boria writes in...

    $12.99
  • I Want to Tell You

    I Want to Tell You

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval

    Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poetry in I Want to Tell You works toward a language of...

    $18
  • Ishmael Mask

    Ishmael Mask

    By Charles Kell

    In Ishmael Mask, Charles Kell’s second collection of poetry, the poet extends his exploration of...

    $16.95
  • The Age of Doubt

    The Age of Doubt

    By Pak Kyongni (translated by Sophie Bowman, Anton Hur, Slin Jung, You Jeong Kim, Paige Aniyah Morris, Mattho Mandersloot, Emily Yae Won, and Dasom Yang)

    Trial and Error Who are we allowed to love? Who should we worship? How do...

    $15.99
  • Forgotten Night

    Forgotten Night

    By Rebecca Goodman

    “Words rained all around me,” states our narrator in a moment of loss, clarity, and...

    $20
  • Thirst & Surfeit

    Thirst & Surfeit

    By Elizabeth Robinson

    In Thirst & Surfeit, Elizabeth Robinson pressurizes language’s relationship to time, to history. In her...

    $18
  • Further Adventures

    Further Adventures

    By Norman Finkelstein

    Norman Finkelstein’s Further Adventures is the last of a trilogy of collections centered around Pascal...

    $23
  • Negro Mountain

    Negro Mountain

    By C.S. Giscombe

    The titular Negro Mountain in C.S. Giscombe’s latest collection is, foremost, a real place: a...

    $18
  • The Book

    The Book

    By Mary Ruefle

    Flipping through a beautiful new collection of poetry to find that it is actually a...

    $25
  • The Dreams We Share

    The Dreams We Share

    By Raphael Block

    Raphael Block’s new collection, The Dreams We Share, is a work of sustained and reverent...

    $17.50
  • Tiny Extravaganzas

    Tiny Extravaganzas

    By Diane Mehta

    Diane Mehta’s Tiny Extravaganzas is an exploration of muses and isolation, and with references to...

    $20
  • The Upstate

    The Upstate

    By Lindsay Turner

    In a time of environmental and civic toxicity, Lindsay Turner attends to our flailing integrity...

    $18