Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy
The thing about dad jokes is that they’re not for you; they’re for your father....
$12.99
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson wrote that “biography first convinces us of the fleeing of the Biographed.” And,...
$16.95
Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
MPH and Other Road Poems by Ed Roberson (2021) Verge Books There’s a line Emerson...
Asked What Has Changed
These poems imbued with issues of climate and racial justice bristle with sound, word play,...
$24.95
Names for Light: A Family History
If you can get past the knot of generational descriptors, geographical locations, and time periods,...
$16
The Deposition
Duval is not afraid to leave the reader guessing about the ultimate fate of his...
$19.95
Pilgrim Bell
Akbar invites his audience to read between the lines and find his shadow story—the truth...
$16
Bone Rosary
From his perch of eyewitness, Lynch presents to the literary canon his deeply considered treatise...
$25.95
Graceland, 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....
$26
Art in Time
I stamp my foot in applause, write notes on the pages, distribute my thoughts; Swensen...
$18.95
The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is, by both artistic and political measures, one of the most important...
$23.99
Now It’s Dark
Written in a time of loss and disaffection, the fatigue in these poems is insidious....
$15.95
The Memory Eaters
Central to Elizabeth Kadetsky’s stellar collection of essays about the nature of memory and grief,...
$19.95
Things That Go
When disasters fly by faster than billboards, how are we to bear witness to them?...
$16.95
The 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...
$26
The Melancholy of Anatomy
There’s a sense in The Melancholy of Anatomy that the grave intellect monitoring the process...
$18
World 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...
$25
Get Thee to a Bakery
Get Thee to a Bakery opens with the title essay, in which Rick Bailey recounts...
$19.95
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
