Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
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