Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti Liesel Hamilton When you open Anjali Enjeti’s Southbound:...

Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov Tanner Barnes Alex Dimitrov’s third collection, Love and Other Poems, starts in the middle of 14th...

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner So Young Koo As a Korean living in America, for me the title of Michelle Zauner’s memoir conjures up...

Crushing It by Jennifer L. Knox Tanner Barnes Jennifer L. Knox’s latest poetry collection, Crushing It, is hilarious and heartbreaking....

The Witch of Eye by Kathryn Nuernberger Isabella Tommasone In this curious and perceptive collection of essays, The Witch of Eye,...

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang Li Zhuang The simplistic and elegantly designed cover of Alexandra Chang’s debut novel, Days of...

Gargoyle by Jake Hanrahan Will Anderson Having started his own independent journalism organization, Popular Front, more than two years...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Li Zhuang As writers, we play with words and punctuation so much that we start to see the...

The True Jazz of Wesley Brown's 'Tragic Magic' Aram Mrjoian The first book republished as part of McSweeney’s Of The Diaspora series,...

The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Devan Schnecker The Malevolent Volume is a text that inhabits several registers. It is at...

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Keri Miller “Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many,” says Giovanna,...

Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State, MCD, 2018, $26. In 2016, Lydia Kiesling published an essay in the New Yorker in which she wrote,...

Peter Davis, Band Names & Other Poems, Bloof Books, 2018, $16 The latest poetry collection by Peter Davis is everything that the title...

Marream Krollos, Big City, Fiction Collective Two, 2018, $18.95 When you start Marream Krollos’s Big City, you might feel as though you...

Beth Bachmann, CEASE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. $17. Any reader familiar with Beth Bachmann’s work will remember her first...

Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, Two Dollar Radio, 2018. $16.99 Long before receiving my copy of Katya Apekina’s...

The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien, Maebh Long, ed. Dalkey Archive Press, 2018. $26.00 “To be interesting a letter has to be...

Max Ritvo. The Final Voicemails. Milkweed Editions, 2018. $22.00. I’ve known so many people with voicemails they won’t delete from their...

This Review was written by Billy Hallal and was featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 31.2. Jess Walter. We Live in Water: Stories....

This Review was written by Lisa McMurtray and was featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 33.1. Wendy Xu. You Are Not Dead. Cleveland State...