Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
Bardo or Not Bardo
Volodine’s novel is energetic, offbeat, fast-paced, and shows an off-kilter sense of humor. He writes...
$13.95
Children of the Country
Set in a depressed blue-collar community in the isolated backcountry of Arkansas, the novel depicts...
$15.29
Wedding Pulls
Brimming with characters, the poems are not narrative but tightly sprung lyrics whose wording reveals...
$14.95
Scorpyn Odes
Browne’s challenge to how our world is and whether we should continue to stay in...
$16.95
The White Swallow
The language is compressed, carefully wrought, every sentence doing the work of many....
$10.00
Turning into Dwelling
Many of his poems don’t just push boundaries of time, place, race, and self, but...
$16.00
Catechism: A Love Story
Claiming one’s “hidden wholeness” is a life’s work, and this book demonstrates one person’s passionate...
$14.00
Neon Green
...the presence of the alien ship never overwhelms the meat of the story, a heartfelt...
$16.00
Solar Maximum
Reading these poems is to be gripped by the uncanny: they're strange and familiar....
$18.00