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Reviewed by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers Mega-City Redux Poems by Alyse Knorr Green Mountains Review Books, February 2016 $15.00; 62 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-9963342-2-8 As the author notes, Mega-City Redux ...

Book Review: Mega-City Redux by Alyse Knorr

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Reviewed by Susan Thurston Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare by Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla Tupelo Press, April 2016 $32.95; 500 ...

Book Review: Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare by Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla

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Reviewed by Brady Krien A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters Amy and Dave Freeman Milkweed Editions, September 2017 $35.00; 303 pp. ISBN: 978-1571313669 In his 1956 book, The ...

Book Review: A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters by Amy and Dave Freeman

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Reviewed by Charles Holdefer Everyone Was There: Stories Fiction by Anthony Varallo Elixir Press, May 2017 $19.00; 168 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1932418637 Winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award, Everyone Was ...

Book Review: Everyone Was There: Stories by Anthony Varallo

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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 ...

LAR’s The Best Books of the Year

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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 ...

Book Review: The Idiocy of Perfection

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