Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
In the Woods of Memory
This layered, textured novel throws into stark relief the interconnections between experience and memory, and...
$16.95
Five Reviews: The Sobbing School; Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last; The Wug Test; Scriptorium; and Trébuchet
All these collections, however, share an intellectual restlessness, a capacity for rendering the associative leaps...
$ Various
Camanchaca
Not until the last page of Diego Zúñiga’s novel Camanchaca does a camanchaca itself appear....
$15.95
Behind the Mask: An Anthology of Heroic Proportions
Rocketing into speculative fiction territory, Behind the Mask, a strikingly entertaining anthology of short stories...
$10.74I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
Reading this work gives the reader an uncanny sensation that Hall is not just presenting...
$16.00
Broken River
There’s a vulnerability to the book that speaks to our inclination toward disaster, and that’s...
$16.00
Illusion of an Overwhelm
Resisting single interpretation and clear narrative, John Amen pushes against the conventional through poems that...
$15.81
Partisan of Things
A necessary new translation of a book that looks deeply and astutely at the nonhuman...
$13.95
November Storm
November Storm, the debut story collection by Robert Oldshue, provides readers with nine intimate explorations...
$16.00
Four Reincarnations
Along with tough images from someone facing the end of life, there are generosity and...
$14.95
Cold Pastoral
These poems take careful note of the methods by which humans are destroying the Earth,...
$10.87
Monsters in Appalachia
Monks’s Appalachia is a place of miners laboring in impossibly dangerous conditions, poor women with...
$14.09
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Pogrebin’s journey is distinct and individual, yet one which mirrors the quest of many Jewish...
$15.00
A Fugitive in Walden Woods
Ventriloquizing historical figures is always tricky, but Lock does it with just the right mix...
$10.39
Tender Omnibus
Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma...
$30.00
A Moral Tale and Other Moral Tales
Readers should be aware that, while Emmons’s work has a beautiful complexity, it is also...
$9.99
The Stillness of the Picture
The characters in this collection are steeling themselves against familial change, a familiar conceit in...
$17.05
Take This Stallion
Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a...
$12.81
A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
If you seek a guide—on coming of age, lost love, temptations both resisted and surrendered...
$16.48
Fireworks in the Graveyard
Joy Ladin faces the relentlessness of our most vexing riddles with grace, musicality, and wry...
$10.00