Fourth City: Essays From the Prison in America by Doran Larson. If the mark of a democracy were determined by how a nation treats its...

Chain Link Fence, poems by Patti White. As a child growing up in South Mississippi, I was given the chore of plucking the fascicles of...

Fourteen Stories, None Of Them Are Yours, a novel by Luke B. Goebel, Fiction Collective 2. In this too-brief debut novel-in-stories,...

Whelm, a poetry collection by dawn lonsinger, Lost Horse Press Whelm by dawn lonsinger is a book of poems dominated by the forces of...

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, an anthology edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company In...

On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems, a poetry collection by Barbara Hamby, University of Pittsburgh Press. Barbara...

Claire of the Sea Light, a novel by Edwidge Danticat, Random House. Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat’s fifth novel, takes...

A novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon A River, W.W. Norton & Company. Toward the end of Once Upon a River, a farmer negotiating a...

Rise. Stories by L. Annette Binder. Sarabande Books. Obsession, pain, and longing. These are the elements that indelibly mark L. Annette...

A River So Long by Vallie Lynn Watson Veronica, the protagonist of Watson’s A River So Long, lives in a world of hotels. Her job takes...

A novel by Josh Henkin, The World Without You, Vintage The World Without You by Josh Henkin, newly released in paperback, tells the story...

A Dying Fall, A novel by Elly Griffiths, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Murder with its usual dash of mayhem, bleak British landscape,...

Poetry by Anna Journey, Vulgar Remedies. Louisiana State University Press. In “Eden and My Generation,” Larry Levis claims that the poet...

Stealing History: Essays by Gerald Stern W. M. Lobko Gerald Stern on the former U.S. general Stanley McChrystal: “…he was and is...

Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal W. M. Lobko Paisley Rekdal opens her fourth book of poetry with the following salvo: “And then I thought,...

Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race by Harriet Pollack Patrick Osborne Over the last few decades, literary critics have struggled to...

The Youngest Butcher in Illinois by Robert Ostrom Jeffrey Allen There is much out there that implies an expansive existence, a belief...

The Man Who Noticed Everything by Adrian Van Young Keith McCleary “Hard Water,” the opening story in Adrian Van Young’s debut collection,...

Kings of the F**king Sea, Poetry by Dan Boehl, Art by Jonathan Marshall David Moody On a shelf, Kings of the F**king Sea by Dan Boehl...

Nostalgia for the Criminal Past by Kathleen Winter April Manteris From the opening, title poem in her debut collection, Nostalgia for the...