Reviewed by Ann Beman
Human Acts
A Novel by Han Kang
Hogarth, January 2017
$22; 224 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1101906729
In May 1980, student demonstrations set off a popular uprising in Gwangju, South ...
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Reviewed by Daniel Pecchenino
Across the China Sea
A novel by Gaute Heivoll
Graywolf Press, September 2017
$16.00; 232 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555977849
Near the end of Norwegian writer Gaute Heivoll’s new ...
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Reviewed by Tyler Robert Sheldon
Marvels of the Invisible
Poems by Jenny Molberg
Tupelo Press, February 2017
$16.95; 78 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1936797929
Jenny Molberg’s debut poetry collection Marvels of ...
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Reviewed by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Detainee
Poems by Miguel Murphy
Barrow Street Press, April 2016
$20.95; 72 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0997318401
Can poetry simultaneously terrify and entrance? Can there be a ...
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Reviewed by Sophia Ihlefeld
Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Nonfiction by Donna Seaman
Bloomsbury, February 2017
$35.00; 480 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1620407585
Donna Seaman’s ...
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Reviewed by Alix Anne Shaw
Ornament
Poems by Anna Lena Phillips Bell
University of North Texas Press, April 2017
$12.95; 84 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1574416657
Anchored in the piedmont of the Carolinas, the ...
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Reviewed by Jill Moyer Sunday
WHAT WE DO NOW: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America
Essays edited by Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians
Melville House; January 2017
$15.99; 224 ...
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Reviewed by B.J. Hollars
The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs
Nonfiction by Mark O'Connell
Dey Street Books, June 2017
$17.99; 416 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0062484178
Though FBI ...
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Reviewed by Pedro Ponce
Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse
A poetry anthology edited by Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby
Literary House Press, October 2016
$20.00; 174 ...
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