Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Love in the Archives
Losing a child. As you read those words, do you have a visceral reaction? A...
$18.29
Negro Mountain
The titular Negro Mountain in C.S. Giscombe’s latest collection is, foremost, a real place: a...
$18
In Everything I See Your Hand
The late Naira Kuzmich’s In Everything I See Your Hand is a startling and provocative...
$18.95
The Dreams We Share
Raphael Block’s new collection, The Dreams We Share, is a work of sustained and reverent...
$17.50
Tiny Extravaganzas
Diane Mehta’s Tiny Extravaganzas is an exploration of muses and isolation, and with references to...
$20
If Some God Shakes Your House
Franklin reminds us that Tragedy may be the most appropriate response to tragedy in this...
$17.95
The Upstate
In a time of environmental and civic toxicity, Lindsay Turner attends to our flailing integrity...
$18
Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
Emily Strasser’s Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History is a book for...
$26.95
Journey to the End of the Empire
In 2004 I hitchhiked illegally into western Tibet, passing myself off as an Uyghur who...
$17.99
Soft Apocalypse
Leah Nieboer’s stunning debut collection of poems, Soft Apocalypse, captures the visceral experience of a...
$19.95
Āina Hānau / Birth Land
In the title poem of Āina Hānau / Birth Land, Brandy Nālani McDougall asks, “na...
$16.95
The Rock That Is Not A Rabbit
Having read the title poem three or four times, I’m still unsure if the rock...
$18
Living Room
The 1977 educational film Powers of Ten begins with an aerial view of a couple...
$17.95
Owlish
Professor Q is typical, in many ways, of the “modern protagonist”: so unfulfilled at work...
$16
Brother Poem
In Will Harris’s Brother Poem, the lines between reality and dreamscapes blur, and readers dwell...
$15.95
Live in Suspense
Midlife is a reckoning with our experience of time. The past seems impossibly far away....
$18
Winter Stranger
Jackson Holbert’s debut collection, Winter Stranger, winner of the Milkweed Editions 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry...
$22
Valley of the Many Colored Grasses
A few years ago, thanks to the magic of the internet, I bought a copy...
$18.95
Piano in the Dark
Set during the wider context of the global pandemic and within the personal history of...
$17.00
Then Telling Be the Antidote
I likened this collection, after an initial reading, to a canvas by Kandinsky, where broad...
$21.95
The Fear of Large and Small Nations
“Everyone probably gets entangled in a terrible relationship at least once in their life—even people...
$23.99
Shoot the Horses First
Orphan trains. Discovery of new moss species. Anti/love stories across race, ability, and socioeconomic class....
$18.99