Book Reviews
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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
The Talented Ribkins
The Talented Ribkins, in some ways, can be taken as three impressive novellas braided together:...
$13.59
Night Beast
The women populating these stories fall anywhere along the gender and sexuality spectrums. They are...
$16.00
We Step into the Sea
One of the great pleasures of reading across Keelan’s body of work is seeing how...
$24.95
Isako Isako
We, too, have seen this kind of semidocumentary poetics before; whereas the rummaging of personal...
$15.95
Peaches Goes It Alone
Frederick Seidel has long taken pleasure in the absurdities of everyday American life. Under his...
$24.00
Ma Bo’le’s Second Life
In addition to the detailed life of Ma Bo’le during the occupation, the novel is...
$15.95
This Must Be the Place
As I read this novel during the fall of 2018, the nation collectively returned to...
$16.95