Book Reviews
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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
Adorable Airport
Ultimately, we are left with an existence, the poet seems to suggest, that hovers between...
$16.95
The Trailhead
The body knows, can achieve this knowledge through mythic journeys and discipline, but there’s a...
$24.95
Flung Throne
For Clevidence, the world is not too much with us; we ourselves are simply too...
$18.00
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
She marshals scientific, intellectual, literary, and journalistic resources to document how climate change has impacted...
$16.00
Smoke City
Set in modern-day America, Rosson’s impressive, character-driven fantasy is focused on two tortured souls, both...
$12.93
The Islands
Wall examines the darker alleys of human existence and the more questionable seams of Irish...
$24.95
The Darkness Call: Essays
As a collagist, Fincke's medium is the paragraph, each seldom exceeding a dozen lines, demarcated...
$20.00
With the Dogstar as My Witness
Most successfully, fractured syntax, lush imagery, and the implicit silence of spatial interruption create pleasurable...
$16.00
Adiós to My Parents
Aguilar Camín varnishes his sentences with great perceptiveness and lyrical grace, and there is an...
$16.99
Aerialists
In Mark Mayer’s impressive debut collection of short stories, a circus or aerialist never actually...
$23.40
Thin Rising Vapors
Rogoff casts his characters’ lives through the various looking glasses of memory, memoir, and myth...
$17.40
A Piece of Good News
From this rich literal and figurative vein, Peterson mines the many forms of interchange—cultural, economic,...
$11.99
The Dogs of Detroit
The world that Felver’s characters inhabit is cold and unforgiving, rife with poverty and violence....
$21.95
All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer
These sixty-four brief, carefully wrought essays center on the writer’s mother’s battle with cancer and...
$16.00
On Contemporary Art
On Contemporary Art isn’t a critique of its subject but a discussion of its situation....
$12.95
Homing Instincts
Morales is able to string these eclectic stories together into a larger narrative, making the...
$19.95