Book Reviews
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Teen Queen Training: Essays after The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining, 1963
The experience of reading Kristine Langley Mahler’s Teen Queen Training is not unlike reading a...
$18.00
Lost Cities
What this book cares about most: Lost cities; places that change each time we try...
$17.00
Sea, Poison
“Why Sea? Why Poison?” asks Cumin Baleen, the narrator of Caren Beilin’s novel Sea, Poison:...
$15.95
The Master of Contradictions
Thomas Mann’s magnum opus, The Magic Mountain, tells the story of young engineer Hans Castorp,...
$28.00
Small Scale Sinners
“Poems are pathetic and diaries are pathetic. Really, literature is pathetic,” declares Eileen Myles in...
$20.00
That’s All I Know
Although I may not reach my annual reading goal for the first time since 2016,...
$17
The Sweating Sickness
What this book cares about most: Overcoming Being heard Being listened to How to recover...
$20.00
No Rhododendron
No Rhododendron (a reference to his country’s national flower) is an intoxicating mix of ancestry,...
$20.00
The Flat Woman
Vanessa Saunders’ The Flat Woman, an experimental novel and winner of the 2025 FC2 Ronald...
$18.95
The Museum of Unnatural Histories
The Museum of Unnatural Histories by Annie Wenstrup is a dazzling, disorienting, and reorienting engagement...
$16.95
Spirography: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home
A spirograph is a tool that enables users to produce drawings of tight, interlocking spirals...
$22.99
Mothersalt
Mothersalt, Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s second collection, stretches the limits of genre just as the speaker’s...
$24.95
The Last Way
There are only three characters in The Last Way, Cameron L. Mitchell’s debut novella: the...
$14.50
Make Your Way Home
In the riveting opening story of Carrie R. Moore’s debut collection, a young couple attending...
$17.99
The Shadow of the Mammoth
“Landing on the Moon,” the third story of Pablo Morábito’s newly translated collection The Shadow...
$17.99
Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader
The power of an essay collection is often in how each piece uncovers a small...
$21.95
Chaotic Good
“I choose right. I choose what’s right. / I choose left. I choose what’s left....
$16.95
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
Early in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, Katie Goh describes a fanciful...
$27.99
Scream / Queen
CD Eskilson’s debut, Scream / Queen, is full of slashes. The punctuation mark divides the...
$17.00