Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means
The main subject of the book is Firstman’s relationship with her father, Bruce Firstman, a...
$18.32
Fragments of a Mirror: Selected Essays
Full of deft humor and thoughtful introspection, Fragments of a Mirror offers up glittering shards...
$15.00
The Courtship of Eva Eldridge
After a period of bewilderment, Eva came to understand that Vick was a serial bigamist...
$19.95
A Woman on the Edge of Time
Gavron takes on an even higher challenge: to capture the life force of a mother...
$2.33
Hallow This Ground
Rafferty is no mere tour guide pointing out established stories; instead, he sifts the evidence...
$17.00
Catechism: A Love Story
Claiming one’s “hidden wholeness” is a life’s work, and this book demonstrates one person’s passionate...
$14.00
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light then is partly a quest to find...
$18.00
Seeing Red
One evening in New York, Lina Meruane's body "seize[s] up" and leaves her "paralyzed, [her]...
$14.95
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
Through his poetic practice, Ali argues for identifying chief concerns facing humanity and embracing the...
$32.95
The Inventors
To write a memoir is—on the surface—to undertake a contrasting examination of both the profound...
$18.95
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter is a disquieting read. How could it not be? In it,...
$18.95
Good Girl
Tomlinson’s story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning...
$16.00
Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
As a memoirist, and therefore a character in his own book, Hollars is appealingly capable...
$24.95
Changing the Subject
Birkerts writes particularly insightful essays about the multiple ways ongoing technological changes in our culture...
$16.00
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
As Lauret Savoy traces her own life along with her parents' lives and attempts to...
$25
The Telling
There is a sense while reading that the simplicity of a rote recounting is exactly...
$14.00
Lingering Bilingualism
Brenner’s work . . . [illustrates] that Hebrew and Yiddish both played complex roles, and...
$29.95
Ladies Night at the Dreamland
The Dreamland is expansive, and you get the sense that Livingston would give every woman...
$24.95
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Her sense of writing exists on a lofty plain—far from self-serving thoughts or motivations. Of...
$16.95Mot: A Memoir
Perhaps more than any other genre, memoir relies upon empathy. The memoir writer invites us...
$24.95
A Different Kind of Same
The book is honest, brave, and soul-baring in its exploration of grief and clinical depression....
$11.11
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
Colin Ellard’s wide-ranging and absorbing book is both an exploration of how human beings...
$19.95
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Manguso wisely trains her attention on what persists, claiming space in art for motherhood and...
$20.00
The Argonauts
Although The Arnogauts is listed on several suggested summer reads lists, it should not at...
$23.00