Book Reviews

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  • Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

    Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

    By Sindya Bhanoo

    The eight stories in Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Sindya Bhanoo’s exquisite debut story collection, paint a...

    $26
  • I NEED MUSIC

    I NEED MUSIC

    By Anaïs Duplan

    The title of Anaïs Duplan’s latest book, I NEED MUSIC, makes a seemingly straightforward declaration,...

    $20
  • Earthly Delights

    Earthly Delights

    By Troy Jollimore

    One of the very few facts that should keep artists inspired to make more art...

    $45
  • North | Rock | Edge

    North | Rock | Edge

    By Susan Tichy

    There is a call to approach the remote corners of the world and know, for...

    $14.99
  • Cold Candies

    Cold Candies

    By Lee Young-Ju (translated by Jae Kim)

    In the prose poems that comprise Lee Young-Ju’s collection Cold Candies, the physical world is...

    $16
  • A Myth of Ariadne

    A Myth of Ariadne

    By Martha Ronk

    Martha Ronk’s A Myth of Ariadne examines our contemporary apathy toward war, casual violence, and...

    $14.99
  • Now you Know It All

    Now you Know It All

    By Joanna Pearson

    Now You Know It All, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, reads more like...

    $23
  • Shit Cassandra Saw

    Shit Cassandra Saw

    By Gwen E. Kirby

    In Greek mythology, Apollo grants Trojan priestess Cassandra the power to prophesize the future, but...

    $17
  • The Thicket

    The Thicket

    By Kasey Jueds

    Kasey Jueds’s second collection, The Thicket, has intersecting emotional and imagistic arcs that reward the...

    $18
  • What Could Be Saved

    What Could Be Saved

    By Gregory Spatz

    Gregory Spatz’s short fiction collection, What Could Be Saved, raises essential questions about the nature...

    $9.98
  • Tastes Like War

    Tastes Like War

    By Grace M. Cho

    Here’s the problem with mental illness: what we know about it is far surpassed by...

    $17.95
  • Pee Poems

    Pee Poems

    By Lao Yang (Translated by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu)

    Lao Yang’s Pee Poems, translated from Chinese by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu, is a...

    $18
  • Incryptions

    Incryptions

    By Kylan Rice

    As Ronald Johnson offers us in his germinal epic, ARK: Beneath a maze pattern on...

    $18
  • Beautiful Objects

    Beautiful Objects

    By Martin Johnston

    Of the major Australian poets writing in the final decades of the twentieth century, Martin...

    $29.99
  • Sift

    Sift

    By Christian Hawkey

    In his notes to the book-length poem Sift, Christian Hawkey observes how the project developed from...

    $18
  • Mad Prairie

    Mad Prairie

    By Kate McIntyre

    Certain states seem to be mentioned only when people are listing the ones that nobody...

    $19.95