Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Now you Know It All
Now You Know It All, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, reads more like...
$23
Shit Cassandra Saw
In Greek mythology, Apollo grants Trojan priestess Cassandra the power to prophesize the future, but...
$17
Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
I finished John Sibley Williams’s Scale Model of a Country at Dawn on a beautiful...
$18.95
Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners
In Sarah Mangold’s bold fourth collection, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners, the definition of...
$19.95
The Thicket
Kasey Jueds’s second collection, The Thicket, has intersecting emotional and imagistic arcs that reward the...
$18
The Boundaries of Their Dwelling
Blake Sanz’ The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction,...
$16
What Though the Field Be Lost
Throughout his second poetry collection, Christopher Kempf reckons with the schisms at the root of...
$18.95
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
In 2006, Donald Antrim was on the roof of his apartment building, close to suicide....
$25
What Could Be Saved
Gregory Spatz’s short fiction collection, What Could Be Saved, raises essential questions about the nature...
$9.98
Tastes Like War
Here’s the problem with mental illness: what we know about it is far surpassed by...
$17.95
There Was Nothing Left But Gold
Can you think of a place you would never go back to, if you had...
$12
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
In Blackspace, Anaïs Duplan explores the nature of sociocultural liberation through prose, interview, and poetic...
$18.95
Beautiful Objects
Of the major Australian poets writing in the final decades of the twentieth century, Martin...
$29.99
Arsenal With Praise Song
Rodney Gómez’s Arsenal With Praise Song offers a world of bones and horns, of rivers...
$14
Mad Prairie
Certain states seem to be mentioned only when people are listing the ones that nobody...
$19.95
The Latitude of a Mercy
One of the defining characteristics of “the modern” has long been a heightened consciousness of...
$18.95
The Book of Fools
How to Erase One’s Descent “and only he who descends into the nether world shall...
$22.08
A Ghost in the Throat
Diane Johnson opens her breakthrough biography, The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and...
$14.89
Against Silence
At the end of his new book, Frank Bidart ridicules Hamlet for thinking “the rest...
$25
Blind Man’s Bluff
What would you do if you were sixteen and lost most of your eyesight? If,...
$25.95
Sawgrass Sky
Organized into five breathtaking sections, Andrew Hemmert’s memoir-in-verse, Sawgrass Sky, dazzles me with its visceral...
$19.95