Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
Time Down to Mind
For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc...
$15.95
Lingering Bilingualism
Brenner’s work . . . [illustrates] that Hebrew and Yiddish both played complex roles, and...
$29.95
Ladies Night at the Dreamland
The Dreamland is expansive, and you get the sense that Livingston would give every woman...
$24.95
Gateway to Paradise: Stories
One of the things Vollmer does best is highlight and sustain an act or relationship...
$15.95
Vilna My Vilna
Abraham Karpinowitz ... reminds us of this history and its unique cultural elements with a...
$19.95
We Who Saw Everything
We Who Saw Everything is a vast mnemonic for the event of our speaking of...
$17
Anyone
Of its many strengths, perhaps the most important gesture of this book is to engage...
$18.00
This Fatal Looking Glass
Above all, This Fatal Looking Glass remains rigorously self-aware, aware of its textuality and...
$16.00