The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Albert Camus is a modern prophet of humanism. He was born in 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria, into...

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara At the center of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is love. The kind of love that binds four men...

The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf Oliver Bendorf writes in the poem “Ghost Dog,” “I miss things sometimes that I cannot locate in...

Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams All of the poems in Thief in the Interior, Phillip B. Williams’s debut collection, are poems...

The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky Vulnerability spills from Paul Lisicky’s memior The Narrow Door. An atmosphere of exposure hovers over...

The Genome Rhapsodies by Anna George Meek Relatives coo over an infant, his future formed by both his drug-addicted parents’ DNA and the...

The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy Benjamin Percy knows how to write a compelling monster novel. In Red Moon (2013), he uses lycanthropy...

Call Me By My Other Name by Valerie Wetlaufer I’m still not sure if Valerie Wetlaufer has written a history in verse, or simply folded...

The Rusted City by Rochelle Hurt Peter Johnson, editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, defines prose poetry as an intricate...

Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann When Beth Bachmann released Temper in 2009, she left a violent mark on the poetry world with her elegiac...

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert By the end of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, my mouth was watering for a fluffy...

Days of Shame & Failure by Jennifer L. Knox Even the lovers of poetry get bored sometimes, and we often bring a little of that...

George Singleton, Between Wrecks In George Singleton’s Between Wrecks, the South is as much a physical space as it is an ever-present...

The War of the Foxes by Richard Siken After the success of his first book of poetry, Crush, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets...

Alan Michael Parker, The Committee on Town Happiness “Had the edge moved in the night?” “Where did the balloon go?” “How do you measure...

Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering: New & Collected Essays In Loitering: New & Collected Essays, Charles D’Ambrosio’s first book in eight...

Romeo Bones by Ron Salutsky The innocence and desire for love in a first book—I’ll never get over it. There is an intimacy in trusting...

David Kirby, A Wilderness of Monkeys. The title of David Kirby’s collection appears to indict humankind. Is Kirby insulting the reader?...

The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba’i al-Madhoun Raba’i al-Madhoun’s novel, The Lady from Tel Aviv (shortlisted for the International Prize...

Paris Twilight by Russ Rymer The allure of Paris for certain Americans is a phenomenon well-known-enough by now to be a kind of American...