Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
High Priestess of the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Disobedience
Christy Tending’s High Priestess of the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Disobedience brings together thirty-nine short...
$18
Final Engagement
Don’t read Christopher Izant’s memoir if you’re looking for answers. The author served as a...
$29.99
The Body Alone
In The Body Alone, Nina Lohman doesn’t shrink from the conundrum inherent in writing a...
$24
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
“Ostensibly I write novels and stories,” Danielle Dutton writes at the start of “A Picture...
$17.95
Interrogating Travel
To read Paul Lindholdt’s Interrogating Travel is to receive a wellspring of lived experience about...
$29.95
A Calendar Is a Snakeskin
Kristine Langley Mahler, a married, thirty-eight year old mother of daughters, has reached a point...
$16
Love in the Archives
Losing a child. As you read those words, do you have a visceral reaction? A...
$18.29
Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
Emily Strasser’s Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History is a book for...
$26.95
Journey to the End of the Empire
In 2004 I hitchhiked illegally into western Tibet, passing myself off as an Uyghur who...
$17.99
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
The Greeks have a word for the desire to help people in need, explains Dana...
$19.99
Western Journeys
Teow Lim Goh’s Western Journeys delves into the heart of what it means to be...
$21.95
East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage
In East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage, Rachel Rueckert details her nearly...
$12.95
Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery
John West begins his lyrical and carefully structured memoir, Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery,...
$25
The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse
When I was studying poetry at New York University in the 1990s, my friends and...
$19.95
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
We all have our own lines in the world: A circuitous route that marches us...
$16
The Poetics of Wrongness
In this book of essays, Rachel Zucker acknowledges that being heterosexual and white confer privilege...
$20
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
“I was an Afghan named Habib,” writes Matthieu Aikins in The Naked Don’t Fear the...
$18.99
Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Last May, I was lucky enough to get to spend a month in residency at...
$24
I|I
Katherine Indermaur’s I|I, winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, is a...
$17.99
Curing Season: Artifacts
Kristine Langley Mahler bookends her debut essay collection, Curing Season: Artifacts, with images of her...
$21.99
Team Photograph
Liminal. The word comes to mind so often while I am spelunking through Lauren Haldeman’s...
$21.95
Hysterical
Even as a five-year-old, Elissa Bassist hated the sound of her own voice. She memorized...
$29
XO
The prolific French novelist and memoirist Annie Ernaux opens Simple Passion—a slim autobiographical novel narrating...
$14
Possums Run Amok
In Possums Run Amok, teenager Lora Lafayette hitchhikes to destinations unknown, striving to quench her...
$16.95