Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Spectacle

    Spectacle

    By Susan Steinberg

    The female narrators in Susan Steinberg’s third short story collection, Spectacle, are direct. They confess....

    $14.00
  • The Violet Hour

    The Violet Hour

    By Katherine Hill

    Though reductive and imperfect, it’s not so inaccurate to describe good fiction as the conscientious...

    $26
  • What You Are Now Enjoying

    What You Are Now Enjoying

    By Sarah Gerkensmeyer

    Each of Gerkensmeyer’s thirteen stories envisions an altered reality, a place nearly identical to realistic...

    $17.95
  • Georgic

    Georgic

    By Mariko Nagai

    Nagai delves into the extreme cruelty of the pastoral world with as much brutality and...

    $15.96
  • Arthouse

    Arthouse

    By Jeffrey DeShell

    Crime novels have always been about the traces crime leaves in the external world and...

    $19.95
  • Drain

    Drain

    By Davis Schneiderman

    In formulating his conceit for the novel Drain, Davis Schneiderman takes a page from forbears...

    $22.95
  • Drowned Boy

    Drowned Boy

    By Jerry Gabriel

    Jerry Gabriel's characters seem to spring from the cracks in the sidewalks, allowing the town's...

    $15.95