Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Pike and Bloom
Pike and Bloom, winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize at Lake Forest College, is...
$16.95
Excommunicados
Charles Haverty’s Excommunicados is a collection of subtle and many-layered stories that defy simple categorization....
$17.00
What the Lyric Is
Nicholson’s writing, which is by turns clever, jokey, and devestatingly ironic, seems to be so...
$17.95
Heliopause
The poems in Heliopause are nimble, intelligent, playful, and bold; there is wildness and surprise...
$15.95
Evening Oracle
The poems of Evening Oracle began in ritual, as a taking down of the messages...
$14.00
Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories
In his debut story collection Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories, Edward Hamlin doesn’t...
$17.00
Dog Run Moon
Moments of tenderness are rare in this collection, which sees lives ruined and cattle murdered...
$26.00
The Inventors
To write a memoir is—on the surface—to undertake a contrasting examination of both the profound...
$18.95
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter is a disquieting read. How could it not be? In it,...
$18.95
Good Girl
Tomlinson’s story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning...
$16.00
Upright Beasts
In twenty-five stories (twenty-six if you count an unusually haunting Note on the Type), Michel...
$16.95
Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
As a memoirist, and therefore a character in his own book, Hollars is appealingly capable...
$24.95
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
Characters like Harriet appear only rarely in fiction for the same reason they’re overlooked in...
$15.95
Landscapes on a Train
Swensen’s poems, arranged on the page in windowlike, prose-shaped blocks, do what the best poems...
$17.95
Changing the Subject
Birkerts writes particularly insightful essays about the multiple ways ongoing technological changes in our culture...
$16.00
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
As Lauret Savoy traces her own life along with her parents' lives and attempts to...
$25
Illocality
Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject...
$18.00
The Telling
There is a sense while reading that the simplicity of a rote recounting is exactly...
$14.00The Book of Joshua
Sympathetically surreal, funny and tragic, The Book of Joshua is an unusual book, and an...
$19.95
Dark Green
That’s the heartbreak that the poems in the collection can’t stop nibbling at. What if...
$17.95