Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • The Islands

    The Islands

    By William Wall

    Wall examines the darker alleys of human existence and the more questionable seams of Irish...

    $24.95
  • Aerialists

    Aerialists

    By Mark Mayer

    In Mark Mayer’s impressive debut collection of short stories, a circus or aerialist never actually...

    $23.40
  • Thin Rising Vapors

    Thin Rising Vapors

    By Seth Rogoff

    Rogoff casts his characters’ lives through the various looking glasses of memory, memoir, and myth...

    $17.40
  • The Dogs of Detroit

    The Dogs of Detroit

    By Brad Felver

    The world that Felver’s characters inhabit is cold and unforgiving, rife with poverty and violence....

    $21.95
  • The Talented Ribkins

    The Talented Ribkins

    By Ladee Hubbard

    The Talented Ribkins, in some ways, can be taken as three impressive novellas braided together:...

    $13.59
  • Night Beast

    Night Beast

    By Ruth Joffre

    The women populating these stories fall anywhere along the gender and sexuality spectrums. They are...

    $16.00
  • Trash Mountain

    Trash Mountain

    By Bradley Bazzle

    Are each of us destined, sooner or later, to live and work on the rugged...

    $16.95
  • Ma Bo'le's Second Life

    Ma Bo’le’s Second Life

    By Xiao Hong, translated by Howard Goldblatt

    In addition to the detailed life of Ma Bo’le during the occupation, the novel is...

    $15.95
  • This Must Be the Place

    This Must Be the Place

    By Susan Jackson Rodgers

    As I read this novel during the fall of 2018, the nation collectively returned to...

    $16.95
  • Carry You

    Carry You

    By Glori Simmons

    The war has continued for so long now that an entire generation has never known...

    $17.95