Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Fragments of a Mirror: Selected Essays
Full of deft humor and thoughtful introspection, Fragments of a Mirror offers up glittering shards...
$15.00
A Garden Fed by Lightning
Infused with an element of the fantastical, many of the stories, initially appearing straightforward and...
$15.42
Divinity School
Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations...
$14.45
The Opposite of Light
The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that...
$9.91
The Rope Swing
Nowhere is the tension between the “gift” and “test” of West Virginia more deftly drawn...
$11.53
A Pillow Book
Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a...
$14.00
Him, Me, Muhammad Ali
Jarrar's characters are Muslims, mainly women, usually not living their lives in lockstep with the...
$10.29
The Courtship of Eva Eldridge
After a period of bewilderment, Eva came to understand that Vick was a serial bigamist...
$19.95
Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down
Valente writes with the ear of a poet and the inquisitive instinct of a journalist....
$16.98
Potted Meat
Steven Dunn’s award-winning debut novel is a formally innovative, sonically distinctive work of art that...
$14.00
A Woman on the Edge of Time
Gavron takes on an even higher challenge: to capture the life force of a mother...
$2.33
The Division of Labor
There is optimism in this book, but it is an optimism like none I’ve otherwise...
$16.00
A Collapse of Horses
I was surprised to find that some of the stories in his most recent collection,...
$16.95
Descriptions of Heaven
The characters struggle against Natalia’s death as a leap into nothingness—the complete physical destruction of...
$22.95
The Best Small Fictions 2016
In many ways, the effects in short fictions are not unlike those found in quantum...
$14.95
Wins and Losses
Although the stories are packed with people and dialogue, and laughter, there are also moments...
$19.95
Hallow This Ground
Rafferty is no mere tour guide pointing out established stories; instead, he sifts the evidence...
$17.00
Burn Lyrics
Landry has approached the art of erasure in reverse, so that something of the timeless,...
$15.00
Massive, Cleansing Fire
Made up of individual stories, each one ending in a fire or focused on accounts...
$16.00
Spiritual Grave Year
Through humor and sincerity, stitched together with painfully lurid moments, Dan Magers provides “a vision...
$12.00