Book Reviews
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Possums Run Amok
In Possums Run Amok, teenager Lora Lafayette hitchhikes to destinations unknown, striving to quench her...
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And If the Woods Carry You
Erin Rodoni’s And If the Woods Carry You shimmers with a mythos equal parts wondrous...
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
A Latin phrase is included in the Great Seal of the United States: “E pluribus...
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
The eight stories in Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Sindya Bhanoo’s exquisite debut story collection, paint a...
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I NEED MUSIC
The title of Anaïs Duplan’s latest book, I NEED MUSIC, makes a seemingly straightforward declaration,...
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Earthly Delights
One of the very few facts that should keep artists inspired to make more art...
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North | Rock | Edge
There is a call to approach the remote corners of the world and know, for...
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Cold Candies
In the prose poems that comprise Lee Young-Ju’s collection Cold Candies, the physical world is...
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A Myth of Ariadne
Martha Ronk’s A Myth of Ariadne examines our contemporary apathy toward war, casual violence, and...
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Now you Know It All
Now You Know It All, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, reads more like...
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Shit Cassandra Saw
In Greek mythology, Apollo grants Trojan priestess Cassandra the power to prophesize the future, but...
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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...
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The Boundaries of Their Dwelling
Blake Sanz’ The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction,...
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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....
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What Could Be Saved
Gregory Spatz’s short fiction collection, What Could Be Saved, raises essential questions about the nature...
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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...
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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...
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