Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
A Latin phrase is included in the Great Seal of the United States: “E pluribus...
$25
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
In 2006, Donald Antrim was on the roof of his apartment building, close to suicide....
$25
Tastes Like War
Here’s the problem with mental illness: what we know about it is far surpassed by...
$17.95
There Was Nothing Left But Gold
Can you think of a place you would never go back to, if you had...
$12
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
In Blackspace, Anaïs Duplan explores the nature of sociocultural liberation through prose, interview, and poetic...
$18.95
A Ghost in the Throat
Diane Johnson opens her breakthrough biography, The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and...
$14.89
Blind Man’s Bluff
What would you do if you were sixteen and lost most of your eyesight? If,...
$25.95Things Are Against Us
In a recent interview on the NPR show Fresh Air, a ninety-five-year-old Mel Brooks told...
$24.95
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
There is something quite private about annotating a book. Without thought to publication, writing in...
$35
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Daniel Sherrell’s epistolary climate memoir, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World,...
$17.00
A Harp in the Stars
The term “lyric essay” has been with us for nearly thirty years, and while it...
$24.95
Farm Girl: a Memoir
Megan Baxter’s Farm Girl is more than a memoir of a woman working on a...
$19.95
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
Following the multiple-award-winning success of Obit, Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and...
$25