2017 was an incredible year for new books, so we asked our staff to share a few of their favorites. Here are the highlights of what our editors read over the last 356 days.
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us ...
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Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability
Essays by Kelly Davio
Squares and Rebels, October 2017
$17.98; 133 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-941960-06-6
To say that Kelly Davio’s account of ...
Book Review: It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability by Kelly Davio
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Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
Mother of All Pigs
Fiction by Malu Halasa
The Unnamed Press, November 2017
$12.18; 266 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1944700348
“Women are a bridge to the future,” the Syrian freedom ...
Book Review: Mother of All Pigs by Malu Halasa
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Reviewed by Tom Griffen
The Cowherd’s Son
Poems by Rajiv Mohabir
Tupelo Press, May 2017
$16.95; 99 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-936797-96-7
Rajiv Mohabir’s second full-length collection, The Cowherd’s Son, ...
Book Review: The Cowherd’s Son
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Reviewed by Greg Walklin
The Idiocy of Perfection
Essays by Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez
Translated by Tanya Huntington
Literal Publishing, April 2017
$19.95; 205 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1942307136
The essays ...
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Reviewed by Riley Mang
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir
A memoir by Eileen Myles
Grove Press, September 2017
$24.00; 224 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0802127099
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir is a kaleidoscopic reflection on ...
Book Review: Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
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Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
In Which I Play the Runaway
Poems by Rochelle Hurt
Barrow Street Press, November 2016
$16.95; 94 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-9973184-2-5
Rochelle Hurt’s second poetry collection, In ...
Book Review: In Which I Play the Runaway by Rochelle Hurt
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Reviewed by Douglas Manuel
The Book of Lamenting
Poems by Lory Bedikian
Anhinga Press Inc., November 2011
$17.00; 64 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1934695265
Do you remember when we had a president who was a reader ...
Book Review: The Book of Lamenting by Lory Bedikian
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Reviewed by Natalie Sypolt
Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
Nonfiction by Katie Fallon
University Press of New England, March 2017
$19.57, 247 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1611689716
Imagine driving to ...
Book Review: Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird by Katie Fallon
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