Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Silent Light

    Silent Light

    By Mark Jacobs

    In this epic journey through brutalized, fractured communities within the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...

    $23
  • The Coin

    The Coin

    By Yasmin Zaher

    Money pervades language. We talk about what our time is worth, whether others will get...

    $27
  • Final Engagement

    Final Engagement

    By Christopher L. Izant

    Don’t read Christopher Izant’s memoir if you’re looking for answers. The author served as a...

    $29.99
  • The Signalman

    The Signalman

    By Ezra Miles

    In Ezra Miles’s The Signalman, the weight of silence and solitude lowers and reshapes an...

    $17
  • The Real Ethereal

    The Real Ethereal

    By Katie Naughton

    Katie Naughton’s first book of poetry, The Real Ethereal, is as timely as it is...

    $20
  • Four Fields

    Four Fields

    By Dorinda Wegener

    Dorinda Wegener’s debut collection Four Fields builds a world for the reader to step into...

    $18
  • Fanling in October

    Fanling in October

    By Pui Ying Wong

    Fanling in October opens with a journey back to Pui Ying Wong’s Hong Kong roots,...

    $18
  • Beforelight

    Beforelight

    By Matthew Gellman

    Incorporating a few of the poems and themes that appeared in his collection Night Logic,...

    $18
  • To Be Named Something Else

    To Be Named Something Else

    By Shaina Phenix

    Dripping with water and blood, bursting with song and mourning, dancing with ancestral and future...

    $19.95
  • Synthetic Jungle

    Synthetic Jungle

    By Michael Chang

    As I read Synthetic Jungle, the third full-length collection Michael Chang has published since 2021,...

    $18
  • The Body Alone

    The Body Alone

    By Nina Lohman

    In The Body Alone, Nina Lohman doesn’t shrink from the conundrum inherent in writing a...

    $24
  • The Fifth Wound

    The Fifth Wound

    By Aurora Mattia

    Aurora Mattia’s first novel, The Fifth Wound, is many books in one. Sarah Gerard calls...

    $19.95
  • Sinking Bell

    Sinking Bell

    By Bojan Louis

    When I first read Bojan Louis’s short story collection Sinking Bell, I was an MFA...

    $16
  • 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