Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies isn’t just a story collection; it is a poignant reminder that...
$15.95Reckless Lovely
In Martha Silano's stunning fourth collection of poems, readers will encounter "velvety soup," "60,000 eggs,"...
$15.00The Year of Perfect Happiness
In Becky Adnot-Haynes’s first collection of stories, The Year of Perfect Happiness, happiness is—not surprisingly—a...
$14.95Flash Fiction International
It is not enough to read these stories once, which is why it will take...
$15.95The Suicide of Claire Bishop
So, how does an author take this inherently rational activity and render a portrait of...
$24.95Among the Wild Mulattos & Other Tales
Among the Wild Mulattos & Other Tales is set almost entirely in a region called...
$14.95Far-Fetched
The possibilities [Johnston] envisions for our contemporary times are far more than we deserve....
$23.00The Collector of Names
In The Collector of Names Hicks once again demonstrates how we may confront death, loss,...
$15.00Bewildered
The characters in Bewildered may never fully understand or control who they ultimately are, but...
$24.95Century Swept Brutal
If you want a taste of the beauty of our clumsy human limitations and desires,...
$14.95Ohio Railroads
Ostensibly a catalog of Ohio’s network of railroads,Ohio Railroads takes up race, memory, language, and...
$11.95The Meatgirl Whatever
Kristin Hatch's poems in The Meatgirl Whatever are following the idea of "to serve." Or...
$15.95The Let Go
In a moment when literary short fiction sometimes seems to be getting shorter and shorter,...
$16.95Lies, First Person
Lies, First Person is an extremely ambitious novel, which in the end does not lend...
$15.95The Lost Novel
Yes, these are poems of belief and faith, of hope, and they reach toward those...
$15.95Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Manguso wisely trains her attention on what persists, claiming space in art for motherhood and...
$20.00The Argonauts
Although The Arnogauts is listed on several suggested summer reads lists, it should not at...
$23.00Phoning Home: Essays, Einstein’s Beach House: Stories, and Scouting for the Reaper: Stories
Jacob Appel has been very, very busy. In his early forties, Appel is a lawyer....
$variousReptile House
To call Robin McLean a storyteller is technically correct but misses the point of her...
$16.00What Happened Here
Driving the stories is ZoBell’s sure-handed and emotionally intelligent prose. We feel more than see...
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