Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
My Pulse Is an Earthquake
Each of the nine stories is fully developed and stands firmly on its own merits,...
$16.99
When Are You Coming Home?
The care with which she creates these seemingly ordinary lives is evident. She lets her...
$17.95
Double Reveiw: Ozone Journal & Vice and Shadow
Peter Balakian explores the relationship between the lyric and larger social movements, envisioning poetry as...
$18.00; $25.00
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
Colin Ellard’s wide-ranging and absorbing book is both an exploration of how human beings...
$19.95
Safekeeping
The scope of the novel is ambitious, but Hope has structured it wisely, and the...
$15.95
Cocky’s Joy
Michael Farrell’s 2015 collection, Cocky’s Joy, is ambidextrous, its right hand painting comic tableaux, and...
$24.00
King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies isn’t just a story collection; it is a poignant reminder that...
$15.95
Reckless Lovely
In Martha Silano's stunning fourth collection of poems, readers will encounter "velvety soup," "60,000 eggs,"...
$15.00
The Year of Perfect Happiness
In Becky Adnot-Haynes’s first collection of stories, The Year of Perfect Happiness, happiness is—not surprisingly—a...
$14.95
Flash Fiction International
It is not enough to read these stories once, which is why it will take...
$15.95
The Suicide of Claire Bishop
So, how does an author take this inherently rational activity and render a portrait of...
$24.95
Among the Wild Mulattos & Other Tales
Among the Wild Mulattos & Other Tales is set almost entirely in a region called...
$14.95
Far-Fetched
The possibilities [Johnston] envisions for our contemporary times are far more than we deserve....
$23.00
The Collector of Names
In The Collector of Names Hicks once again demonstrates how we may confront death, loss,...
$15.00
Bewildered
The characters in Bewildered may never fully understand or control who they ultimately are, but...
$24.95
Century Swept Brutal
If you want a taste of the beauty of our clumsy human limitations and desires,...
$14.95
Ohio Railroads
Ostensibly a catalog of Ohio’s network of railroads,Ohio Railroads takes up race, memory, language, and...
$11.95
The Meatgirl Whatever
Kristin Hatch's poems in The Meatgirl Whatever are following the idea of "to serve." Or...
$15.95
The Let Go
In a moment when literary short fiction sometimes seems to be getting shorter and shorter,...
$16.95
Lies, First Person
Lies, First Person is an extremely ambitious novel, which in the end does not lend...
$15.95