Book Reviews
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Accommodations
This woman’s story, and others like it, pepper Wioletta’s narrative, enfolding a charming bildungsroman into...
$15.95
Buddhism for Western Children
The novel is a showcase for Allio’s many talents, including her incisive use of language....
$17.00
Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides
Images are repeated and inverted; sentences flip syntax along with their corresponding sounds. All this...
$14.00
Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers
Charting this particular topography of the down-and-out, Freure picks up the flip side of success...
$18.95
The Avalanche Path in Summer
The arc of the book is one spent living in and thinking about mountains where...
$18.00
Stories in the Key of Me
Carefully crafted tales of the supernatural, thought-provoking introspection, and relentless black humor can be found...
$15.95
Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater
If the act of writing is one of discovery, then in a similar way, these...
$17.00
Excess—The Factory
But again, the underlying sense of the collective is layered in as well: we are...
$16.00
Kill Class
Language is always an essential agent in the construction of imagined war scenarios and political...
$17.95
Doomstead Days
What sprouts from his burned bracts is the realization that the environmental disaster we have...
$17.95
Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
This quietly devastating “book of friendship,” as the text is subtitled, both flies and lives...
$16.00
Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration
Of course, Albon is not building cities. He is writing poems. The same physics don’t...
$19.95
Running Home
What Arnold’s memoir is really about, however, is family. The running is secondary, an access...
$27.00
A Shameful Life (Ningen Shikkaku)
Yozo struggles throughout the novel with social mores and his interactions with others—he wishes he...
$14.95
To the Bones
The tense and atmospheric story, enlivened by Celtic lore, Appalachian legends, and killer zombies, captures...
$19.99
Dresses from the Old Country
In this compact yet expansive collection of poems, Laura Read places herself on a chair...
$17.00
The Tradition
What’s more, Brown’s development of the “duplex”—a sonnet-like repetitive form, whose name recalls apartment-style housing—showcases...
$17.00
Nevada Days
Bernardo Atxaga (1951-) is unquestionably Basque Country’s most prominent author in terms of editorial success...
$16.00
Age of Glass
Hong's literary landscape is the sonnet. All but three poems riff on this form. Hong's...
$16.00