Book Reviews
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Nice People: New & Selected Stories II
Jauss’s characters frequently fail to accept comfort and even more frequently are locked inside their...
$19.95
The Singing Ship
In this beautifully written novel, Winterer takes us on an expedition into the Australian bush...
$10.95
The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935
In this timely book, Matthew Baigell examines cartoon images of Jews published in mainstream American...
$29.95
The Mannequin Makers
Readers finish the novel having learned that beauty invariably comes at a price: physical and...
$16.00
Spleen Elegy
Perhaps like all memories, particularly traumatic ones, the relationships between the lyric speaker and observable...
$16.00
Glory Days
The landscape of the novel is ghost-haunted. The dead crouch around these characters, blighting them....
$19.95
Everyone Was There
Indeed, we are all composites of contradictions, mysteries unto ourselves, forever zinging between obstacles like...
$17.00
A Turkish Dictionary
Wessels continuously tries to overcome the problem of representation by projecting his images onto an...
$17.00
57 Octaves Below Middle C
These stories could be read in an hour, but to understand them, the reader should...
$17.95
Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems 1975–2015
The most solitary poems, the ones that take the speaker for a walk through a...
$19.95
I Know Your Kind
Brewer investigates how drug use has ravaged a community and the lives of users, enablers,...
$16.00
The Happy End / All Welcome
No matter how many hours we may be chained to our office chair, no matter...
$17
Deep Salt Water
Deep Salt Water is neither political nor didactic; rather, it is a text that transcends...
$20.00
The Killer’s Dog
A well-tended, predictable life, upended in seconds, seems altered forever....
$19.00
Stephen Florida
...Habash trades in whales for altogether more mesmerizing imagery like cannibalistic octopi and an absolutely...
$25.00
Island of Point Nemo
When they are not deciphering multilingual codes, interviewing suspects, competing with Inspector Scummington, and stumbling...
$12.20
Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas
For Sarah, the past, present and future bond into a formidable wall of fear and...
$17.93
Playing Monster :: Seiche
Narratives of trauma seem especially marked by the uncanny or unreal. The traumatized self is...
$17
Marvels of the Invisible
Molberg refuses to parse the usual polarities of religion and the natural world. She seeks...
$16.95
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
The “peace” to which Helen constantly refers is a condition of isolation, complacency, and self-satisfaction....
$24.00