Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Before the Feast

    Before the Feast

    By Saša Stanišić, translated by Anthea Bell

    From the opening lines of Saša Stanišić’s Before the Feast, the reader sits as if...

    $8.67
  • A Garden Fed by Lightning

    A Garden Fed by Lightning

    By Marshall Moore

    Infused with an element of the fantastical, many of the stories, initially appearing straightforward and...

    $15.42
  • The Rope Swing

    The Rope Swing

    By Jonathan Corcoran

    Nowhere is the tension between the “gift” and “test” of West Virginia more deftly drawn...

    $11.53
  • Him, Me, Muhammad Ali

    Him, Me, Muhammad Ali

    By Randa Jarrar

    Jarrar's characters are Muslims, mainly women, usually not living their lives in lockstep with the...

    $10.29
  • Potted Meat

    Potted Meat

    By Steven Dunn

    Steven Dunn’s award-winning debut novel is a formally innovative, sonically distinctive work of art that...

    $14.00
  • A Collapse of Horses

    A Collapse of Horses

    By Brian Evenson

    I was surprised to find that some of the stories in his most recent collection,...

    $16.95
  • Descriptions of Heaven

    Descriptions of Heaven

    By Randal Eldon Greene

    The characters struggle against Natalia’s death as a leap into nothingness—the complete physical destruction of...

    $22.95