Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Folklorn

    Folklorn

    By Angela Mi Young Hur

    Hur’s new novel offers a suspenseful search for family secrets, populated with ghosts and Korean...

    $26.95
  • Seven

    Seven

    By Farzana Doctor

    Not being able to go home again resembles the nature of trauma: it can be...

    $22.99
  • Abundance: A Novel

    Abundance: A Novel

    By Jakob Guanzon

    When Henry enters a Walmart to steal medicine for his sick child, he glances up...

    $16.00
  • Wild Swims: Stories

    Wild Swims: Stories

    By Dorthe Nors; translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra

    Nors achieves exquisite interiority in these narratives, burrowing so precisely into a character’s memory and...

    $15.00
  • Let Me Think: Stories

    Let Me Think: Stories

    By J. Robert Lennon

    The seventy-one pieces in this dexterous, surprising collection are often weird and unexpectedly weighty, particularly...

    $16.00
  • Sybelia Drive

    Sybelia Drive

    By Karin Cecile Davidson

    The approach feels organic, echoing the experience of families receiving letters from Vietnam “in lots...

    $18.95
  • Site Fidelity: Stories

    Site Fidelity: Stories

    By Claire Boyles

    Boyles has written stories of surprising range, while maintaining a focus on how human beings—particularly...

    $25.95
  • The Leave-Takers

    The Leave-Takers

    By Steven Wingate

    Laynie Jackman darts across the country “taking leave of the dead” by dispersing the belongings...

    $24.95