Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Mot: 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
Phoning Home: Essays, Einstein’s Beach House: Stories, and Scouting for the Reaper: Stories
Jacob Appel has been very, very busy. In his early forties, Appel is a lawyer....
$various
A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic
The impulse to create and solve puzzles is embedded within us, as is a yearning...
$29.95
All Who Go Do Not Return
His memoir reflects this attitude of honest examination. His life is marked by dizzying transformation,...
$16.00
The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
Thorpe, a longtime BBC correspondent, crafts precise, evocative prose and has a reporter’s gift for...
$35.00
I Was Not Born
Whichever way you read this collection, the true nature of the writing, and the story,...
$15.00
Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir
“When you’re not in perfect balance,” Floyd Skloot writes in the introduction to Revertigo: An...
$26.95
You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body
In these smart and engaging essays, Shinner challenges us to reconsider our bodies—in particular women’s...
$22.00
Xylotheque: Essays
Renfro’s essays are profoundly moving, written in a rich, deeply felt voice touched with...
$19.95
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Some events are so vast and complicated as to render them ultimately unknowable. ...
$17.00
Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
We know the stories, or we think we do. The Sixties....
$34.95
The Perpetual Motion Machine
By definition a great work of art is one that establishes and lives by its...
$12.95
Innocent Eye: A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art
As an artist and art critic, Patricia Rosoff knows that audiences often feel stymied by...
$19.95
Animal, Mineral, Radical: A Flock of Essays on Wildlife, Family & Food
BK Loren is a thinking person. She observes the universe with a keen eye and...
$16.95
Meaty
Relationships may crumble, the electricity may be shut off, jobs may grind us, our bodies...
$15.95
Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice
“Like many Americans, neither Sean nor his family had given much thought to ‘public defenders’...
$26.95
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
A saline slurry of wastewater passes through rusted culverts and contaminated land, finally reaching the...
$24.95
Let Me Clear My Throat
As a rule, Passarello’s descriptions of sound are more tactile than aural, full of size...
$15.95