Book Reviews
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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
Shankus & Kitto: A Saga
We are both flesh and spirit, alone and together, and our lives are a constant...
$16.00
The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!
Set along the Big Arsenic Springs, a sub-river of the Río Grande, The Annual Big...
$21.12
American Anger
Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding:...
$15.39
The Phantom of Thomas Hardy
Part travelogue, part memoir, part novel, this semi-autobiographical and semi-biographical endeavor is multifaceted and blends...
$22.45
The Girls in My Town
With humor and compassion, Morales vividly captures the quirky imagery of growing up in 1970s...
$16.45
Skeleton Coast
Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...
$15.95
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means
The main subject of the book is Firstman’s relationship with her father, Bruce Firstman, a...
$18.32
Of This New World
Many of the stories involve disillusionment and self-discovery of the type we often find in...
$10.66
Before the Feast
From the opening lines of Saša Stanišić’s Before the Feast, the reader sits as if...
$8.67
An Ecology of Elsewhere
Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...
$10.96
Ghost / Landcape
The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...
$16.00
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
The inherent intimacy of the perspective is one way Nagamatsu infuses the otherworldly with the...
$16.95