Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Phoning 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....
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Reptile House
To call Robin McLean a storyteller is technically correct but misses the point of her...
$16.00
What Happened Here
Driving the stories is ZoBell’s sure-handed and emotionally intelligent prose. We feel more than see...
$17.95
The State We’re In: Maine Stories
Ann Beattie's signature details—her close observation of contemporary manners, speech, culture, and relationships—are as fresh...
$25.00
A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic
The impulse to create and solve puzzles is embedded within us, as is a yearning...
$29.95
All Who Go Do Not Return
His memoir reflects this attitude of honest examination. His life is marked by dizzying transformation,...
$16.00
Particulars of Place
what is fascinating about this collection is the way it gives us an entire life...
$17.95
The Tulip-Flame
In this debut collection, the speaker is a ballerina—full of control and beauty, poise and...
$15.95
Witch Girl
From Zambian author Tanvi Bush comes the smooth-flowing tale of siblings orphaned by the HIV/AIDS...
$15.40
The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
Thorpe, a longtime BBC correspondent, crafts precise, evocative prose and has a reporter’s gift for...
$35.00
I Was Not Born
Whichever way you read this collection, the true nature of the writing, and the story,...
$15.00
The Tranquilized Tongue
Presented as a series of compact, carefully crafted prose pieces, this magnificent sequence poses compelling...
$13.95
The Dead Eat Everything
There is loss, there is struggle in these poems, but there is also the capacity...
$15.00
What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other
And therein lies the beauty of Schultz’s work. If he did not love the world...
$16.95
Four Poetry Books
For as much as poetry concerns itself with the various forms of eternity—Keats’s “A thing...
$17.95
Barely Composed
This collection travels the breadth of the universe and the human, leaving us searching our...
$25.95
The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It; Almanac
Both Bashaw and Smith are important, though under-appreciated, poets...both complicate and enliven our understanding of...
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The Americans; The Tribute Horse
What are we paying in moral capital, Roderick wants to know, for an easy life...
$14.95; 15.95