Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Stone Skimmers
One might excuse oneself for reading it in a single sitting, as I did, finding...
$15.95
El Misterio Nadal: A Lost and Rescued Book: Purportedly Compiled and with Introduction in 2001 by Roberto Bolaño
This is no novel. This is writing about writing itself that explores the intersections between...
$18.00
Fur Not Light
The strength of these impossible-to-summarize poems and the disorder of any narrative is in the...
$14.00
Almonds are Members of the Peach Family
Leading by example, Sauer shows that not only can our stories can be messy, hard...
$18.00
The River Twice
Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice troubles the distinction between past and present. Rather than eschew...
$17.95
Stamford ’76
If one remains open during the excavation process, it is possible to dredge up unexpected,...
$19.95
Utopia Pipe Dream Memory
Refusing to be confined by the limits of narrative genre and form, she nevertheless exploits...
$14.00
Hear Trains
While these poems share approaches, their larger effect is to sketch the history of civilization...
$25.00
The More Extravagant Feast
Green is a careful student of human strength and frailty, aware of the dichotomies always...
$16.00
Three Prize-Winning Short Story Collections of 2019
Based on some similarities between the books and the characters’ concerns, it’s tempting to draw...
$Various
My Mountain Country
The gorgeous cover strikes the first note of the theme: a traditional mountain landscape with...
$16.00
Late Along the Edgelands
Ever, the body risked is one dissolving, while the body through which the reader sees...
$17.95
& more black
These poems take on the historical and current oppression of Black Americans, particularly Black women—including...
$18.00
The Gone Dead
Even with the harsh realities presented in the novel, there is a love of place...
$26.99
Republic Café
Biespiel grapples with global crisis through the lens of the individual—specifically the relationship between two...
$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
Earth Is Best
O’Leary so brilliantly makes language itself a rhizomatic experience, a syntactical force that allows the...
$20.00
At the Gate of All Wonder
The story itself belongs to narrator Samantha Peabody. Samantha Peabody, as she sometimes refers to...
$17.95
Lonesome Gnosis
Scanlon’s poems operate at the moment of enjambment between the last two lines above, the...
$9.00