Book Reviews

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Emme Lunde’s The Boy with a Bird in His Chest

By SAMUEL CLARK
MARCH 4, 2022

Brian Komei Dempster’s Seize

By OLIVIA BRALEY
FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Martín Espada’s Floaters

By DANTE DI STEFANO
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Margaret Renkl’s Graceland, at Last

By ANGELA WINSOR
AUGUST 2, 2021

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Joss Lake’s Future Feeling

By MICHAEL COLBERT
JUNE 28, 2021

Kevin McIlvoy’s One Kind Favor

By HELEN FREMONT
MAY 11, 2021

Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s Shahr-e-Jaanaan

By KIRAN BHAT
JANUARY 29, 2021

Koral Dasgupta’s Ahalya

By SAMUEL CLARK
DECEMBER 18, 2020

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Megan Angelo’s Followers

By NAYA CLARK
JUNE 18, 2020

Mira Ptacin’s The In-Betweens

By MICHAEL COLBERT
APRIL 13, 2020

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Andrés Cerpa’s Bicycle in a Ransacked City

By BESS COOLEY
MARCH 30, 2020

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Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Patsy

By JANELLE RODRIQUES
NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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Brandon Amico’s Disappearing, Inc.

By STEPHANIE TROTT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

By ANGELA WINSOR
AUGUST 30, 2019

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Jessica Jacobs’s Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

By STEPHANIE TROTT
JUNE, 25 2019

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Dark Matter: Aaron Baker’s Posthumous Noon

By AUSTIN SEGREST
DECEMBER 17, 2018

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Jana Beňová’s Seeing People Off

By CATHERINE CAMPBELL
FEBRUARY 2, 2018

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Sasha Pimentel’s For Want of Water

By CHAD ABUSHANAB
FEBRUARY 2, 2018

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Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead

By LAURA HANNA
JANUARY 16, 2018

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Adam Houle’s Stray

By DOUG RUTLEDGE
DECEMBER 3, 2017

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Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By RAYE HENDRIX
DECEMBER 3, 2017

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The Novels of Celeste Ng

By CHRISTINA ASHIE GUIDRY
NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

By REBECCA RENNER
NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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Jorie Graham’s Fast

By N. S. BOONE
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

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Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s Hour of the Ox

By ASHLEY DURRANCE
AUGUST 25, 2017

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The Poetry of Chloe Honum

By AUSTIN SEGREST
JUNE 10, 2017

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Nicholas Mainieri’s The Infinite

By CHARLIE STERCHI
MAY 17, 2017

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Andrea Jurjević’s Small Crimes

By AUSTIN SEGREST
MARCH 28, 2017

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Elena Passarello’s Animals Strike Curious Poses

By MICHAEL PALMER
MARCH 20, 2017

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Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables, & Problems

By DOUGLAS RAY
JANUARY 27, 2017

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Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations

By DOUGLAS RAY
DECEMBER 13, 2016

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Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By AUSTIN SEGREST
DECEMBER 13, 2016

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Rita Mae Reese’s The Book of Hulga

By AUSTIN SEGREST
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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Paul Lisicky’s The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship

By DOUGLAS RAY
JULY 24, 2016

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Maryse Meijer’s Heartbreaker: Stories

By AJA GABEL
JUNE 14, 2016

Phillip B. Williams’s Thief in the Interior

By LUKE HANKINS
MAY 21, 2016

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Underwater Panther, by Angie Macri
By N. S. BOONE | MARCH 14, 2016

The New and Improved Romie Futch
By ERIC LUNDGREN | MARCH 10, 2016

O'Nights, by Cecily Parks
By HANNAH FRIES | MARCH 4, 2016

Otherwise Unseeable, by Betsy Sholl
By LUKE HANKINS | FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Places I Was Dreaming, by Loren Graham
By AUSTIN SEGREST | February 4, 2016

Selfish, by Albert Goldbarth
By BRANDON AMICO | February 4, 2016

Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators and Others, by Robert C. Knapp
By JOHN PHILLIPS | December 1, 2015

The Land between the Lakes: A Geography of the Forgotten Future, by Ronald A. Foresta
By NEIL MATHISON | December 1, 2015

Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism & Historical Change, 1793-1818, by Andrew Cayton
By ELIZABETH KRAFT | December 1, 2015

Blood Work, by Matthew Siegel
By THOM INGRAM | November 3, 2015

Melancholia (An Essay), by Kristina Marie Darling
By EMMA BOLDEN | October 29, 2015

Sweet Aegis: Medusa Poems, by Melissa Dickson
By KATHLEEN NALLEY | October 29, 2015

Little Oblivion, by Susan Allspaw
By PHILIP BELCHER | October 6, 2015

Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vaye Watkins
By ERIN STALCUP | September 29, 2015

Domestic Garden, by John Hoppenthaler
By PATRICK BIZZARO | September 28, 2015

Soumission, by Michel Houellebecq
By DAVID W. PRICE | September 11, 2015

The Glory Gets, by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
By GABRIELLE BATES | September 11, 2015

The Altarpiece, by Sarah Kennedy
By MARY DONNARUMMA SHARNICK | September 11, 2015

Overwinter, by Jeremy Pataky
By BENJAMIN SCHELL | September 11, 2015

Patient. by Bettina Judd, and Spit by Esther Lee
By JULIA BOUWSMA | June 27, 2015

Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age,  by Robert Pogue Harrison
By DAVID W. PRICE | June 16, 2015

The Plan, by Gerhard Roth
By STEPHANIE E. LIBBON | May 18, 2015

The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages, by Mary Carruthers
By R. JAMES GOLDSTEIN | April 20, 2015

Fire Year, by Jason K. Friedman
By TERESA MIRLL | March 16, 2015

Raptor, by Andrew Feld
By PETER KLINE | March 16, 2015

Eden Rise, by Robert J. Norrell
By BERT HITCHCOCK | February 23, 2015

To the Bramble and the Briar and The Cabinetmaker's Window, by Steve Scafidi
By PHILIP BELCHER | February 20, 2015

The Road to Emmaus: Poems, by Spencer Reece
By N. S. BOONE | December 20, 2014

The Use of the World, by Dan Albergotti
By PAUL SCOT AUGUST | December 19, 2014

Leave Luck to Heaven, by Brian Oliu
By SAVANNAH ELISE HARRISON | October 31, 2014

Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan
By ROBIN SABINO | October 21, 2014

The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor: Examining the Role of the Bible in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction, by Jordan Cofer
By VIRGINIA GRANT | September 26, 2014

Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising, by Lynn Arner
By CRAIG BERTOLET | June 27, 2014