Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • 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
  • Wins and Losses

    Wins and Losses

    By Peter Makuck

    Although the stories are packed with people and dialogue, and laughter, there are also moments...

    $19.95
  • Bardo or Not Bardo

    Bardo or Not Bardo

    By Antoine Volodine, translated by J.T. Mahany

    Volodine’s novel is energetic, offbeat, fast-paced, and shows an off-kilter sense of humor. He writes...

    $13.95
  • Children of the Country

    Children of the Country

    By Abigail R. Shaffer

    Set in a depressed blue-collar community in the isolated backcountry of Arkansas, the novel depicts...

    $15.29