Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest’s Deadliest Day
With a title like Shook and a subtitle that includes both the words earthquake and...
$19.95
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass is a call to action that combines memoir, Indigenous storytelling, and scientific writing....
$18.00
Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity
As we share the same codified language predilections, we share the same thoughts and perceptions....
$20.00
Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
It is this kind of brokenness that Sinor seems to be talking about: not a...
$19.95
Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
Her family relocates to a double-wide trailer in Saudi Arabia, a Kensington flat in an...
$22.95
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
The Best of Brevity is a collection of playdough lumps, each squeezed by a different...
$16.95
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
Farmers are few, and their work is extremely intricate, risky, and arduous....
$28.00
A Boy Named Courage: A Surgeon’s Memoir of Apartheid
Himmet Dajee begins his autobiographical tale in his youth, which is split between Cape Town,...
$25
To Limn / Lying In
At once raw and erudite, this slender book of essays packs a profound wallop. I...
$18.00
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Goldbach’s conservative childhood was mine, and even if it's not yours, it provides a lesson...
$14.99
The Blessing
Instead, he writes, “my beginning of trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime...
$15.00
Try to Get Lost
Frank pays affecting tribute to the lives of her mother and sister, both now gone,...
$19.95
50 Miles
It’s lyrical, textured, natural, and unexpected. While the form these essays take are varied in...
$17.00
A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World
Over the course of ten essays, Rember delivers a withering, if darkly humorous, diagnosis of...
$24.95
Stamford ’76
If one remains open during the excavation process, it is possible to dredge up unexpected,...
$19.95
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
The softness with which Renkl delivers the atrocities of life makes the joys of life...
$24.00
The Unnamable Present
Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...
$26.00
Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
Take a moment to consider the word “hearth.” Does it make you think of the...
$18.00
Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
This quietly devastating “book of friendship,” as the text is subtitled, both flies and lives...
$16.00
Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration
Of course, Albon is not building cities. He is writing poems. The same physics don’t...
$19.95
Running Home
What Arnold’s memoir is really about, however, is family. The running is secondary, an access...
$27.00
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
She marshals scientific, intellectual, literary, and journalistic resources to document how climate change has impacted...
$16.00
The Darkness Call: Essays
As a collagist, Fincke's medium is the paragraph, each seldom exceeding a dozen lines, demarcated...
$20.00
Adiós to My Parents
Aguilar Camín varnishes his sentences with great perceptiveness and lyrical grace, and there is an...
$16.99