Book Reviews
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
The eight stories in Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Sindya Bhanoo’s exquisite debut story collection, paint a...
$26I NEED MUSIC
The title of Anaïs Duplan’s latest book, I NEED MUSIC, makes a seemingly straightforward declaration,...
$20Earthly Delights
One of the very few facts that should keep artists inspired to make more art...
$45North | Rock | Edge
There is a call to approach the remote corners of the world and know, for...
$14.99Cold Candies
In the prose poems that comprise Lee Young-Ju’s collection Cold Candies, the physical world is...
$16A Myth of Ariadne
Martha Ronk’s A Myth of Ariadne examines our contemporary apathy toward war, casual violence, and...
$14.99Now you Know It All
Now You Know It All, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, reads more like...
$23Shit Cassandra Saw
In Greek mythology, Apollo grants Trojan priestess Cassandra the power to prophesize the future, but...
$17Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
I finished John Sibley Williams’s Scale Model of a Country at Dawn on a beautiful...
$18.95Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners
In Sarah Mangold’s bold fourth collection, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners, the definition of...
$19.95The Thicket
Kasey Jueds’s second collection, The Thicket, has intersecting emotional and imagistic arcs that reward the...
$18The Boundaries of Their Dwelling
Blake Sanz’ The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction,...
$16What Though the Field Be Lost
Throughout his second poetry collection, Christopher Kempf reckons with the schisms at the root of...
$18.95One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
In 2006, Donald Antrim was on the roof of his apartment building, close to suicide....
$25What Could Be Saved
Gregory Spatz’s short fiction collection, What Could Be Saved, raises essential questions about the nature...
$9.98Tastes Like War
Here’s the problem with mental illness: what we know about it is far surpassed by...
$17.95There Was Nothing Left But Gold
Can you think of a place you would never go back to, if you had...
$12Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
In Blackspace, Anaïs Duplan explores the nature of sociocultural liberation through prose, interview, and poetic...
$18.95Beautiful Objects
Of the major Australian poets writing in the final decades of the twentieth century, Martin...
$29.99Arsenal With Praise Song
Rodney Gómez’s Arsenal With Praise Song offers a world of bones and horns, of rivers...
$14Mad Prairie
Certain states seem to be mentioned only when people are listing the ones that nobody...
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