Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Another Kind of Madness
All too often tropes in literature about the African-American experience are seen as representative of...
$26.00
sound of wave in channel, Books I and II
Ratcliffe’s words carry in them the promise that, somewhere in this sustained observation, there is...
$50.00
Nightingale
Ancient stories of transformation are again transformed by Rekdal’s telling, and it’s impossible to read...
$16.00
Spiritual Exercises
Considering the weightiness of the subject matter—identity, love, language, and the limits of understanding—this collection...
$14.73
Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
Take a moment to consider the word “hearth.” Does it make you think of the...
$18.00
At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered
Throughout his new poems, Levine operates as a poetic pantheist, locating vitality in the ordinary...
$20.00
Last Words of the Holy Ghost
Sometimes these stories are laugh-out-loud funny in a way that doesn’t feel cheap or forced,...
$14.95
Sight Lines
The most important thing about these edits is that the old words are not simply...
$16.00
Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018
Though the narrator seems to be an outside observer, the story feels intimate because we’re...
$15.00
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