Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • The Singularity

    The Singularity

    By Balsam Karam

    The title of Balsam Karam’s novel, The Singularity, is also a description of its formal...

    $16.95
  • The Avian Hourglass

    The Avian Hourglass

    By Lindsey Drager

    An unnamed town with an unnamed narrator are at the center of The Avian Hourglass’s...

    $17.95
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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