Book Reviews
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Before the Feast
From the opening lines of Saša Stanišić’s Before the Feast, the reader sits as if...
$8.67Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
The inherent intimacy of the perspective is one way Nagamatsu infuses the otherworldly with the...
$16.95A Garden Fed by Lightning
Infused with an element of the fantastical, many of the stories, initially appearing straightforward and...
$15.42The Rope Swing
Nowhere is the tension between the “gift” and “test” of West Virginia more deftly drawn...
$11.53Him, Me, Muhammad Ali
Jarrar's characters are Muslims, mainly women, usually not living their lives in lockstep with the...
$10.29Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down
Valente writes with the ear of a poet and the inquisitive instinct of a journalist....
$16.98Potted Meat
Steven Dunn’s award-winning debut novel is a formally innovative, sonically distinctive work of art that...
$14.00A Collapse of Horses
I was surprised to find that some of the stories in his most recent collection,...
$16.95Descriptions of Heaven
The characters struggle against Natalia’s death as a leap into nothingness—the complete physical destruction of...
$22.95The Best Small Fictions 2016
In many ways, the effects in short fictions are not unlike those found in quantum...
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