Book Reviews
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Bone Rosary
From his perch of eyewitness, Lynch presents to the literary canon his deeply considered treatise...
$25.95Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
In Graceland, At Last, Margaret Renkl makes the stereotypes of her native country her business....
$26Art in Time
I stamp my foot in applause, write notes on the pages, distribute my thoughts; Swensen...
$18.95The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is, by both artistic and political measures, one of the most important...
$23.99Now It’s Dark
Written in a time of loss and disaffection, the fatigue in these poems is insidious....
$15.95The Memory Eaters
Central to Elizabeth Kadetsky’s stellar collection of essays about the nature of memory and grief,...
$19.95Things That Go
When disasters fly by faster than billboards, how are we to bear witness to them?...
$16.95The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
When Krys Malcolm Belc became pregnant with a son, he began to see his identity—not...
$26The Melancholy of Anatomy
There’s a sense in The Melancholy of Anatomy that the grave intellect monitoring the process...
$18World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s first essay collection, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and...
$25Get Thee to a Bakery
Get Thee to a Bakery opens with the title essay, in which Rick Bailey recounts...
$19.95Shook: 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...
$19.95Dear Ms. Schubert
Listen to the bird song. As Lipska writes,” “It’s just an untreated case of chronic...
$19.95Abundance: A Novel
When Henry enters a Walmart to steal medicine for his sick child, he glances up...
$16.00Wild Swims: Stories
Nors achieves exquisite interiority in these narratives, burrowing so precisely into a character’s memory and...
$15.00trans(re)lating house one
Missaghi’s book maps the city and its dead, maps the way women move and act...
$17.95Braiding 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....
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