Reviewed by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
The Crown Ain't Worth Much
Poems by Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib
Button Poetry, July 2016
$16.00; 124 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1943735044
An older reader (like this one) might ...
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Reviewed by B.J. Hollars
Canoeing with José
Nonfiction by Jon Lurie
Milkweed Editions, June 2017
$16.00; 328 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1571313218
In his seminal 1935 nonfiction work Canoeing with the Cree, ...
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Reviewed by David Keplinger
From Nothing
Poems by Daniel Tobin
Four Way Books, March 2016
$15.95; 39 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1935536697
Recently I attended the memorial service of a former head of robotics at ...
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Reviewed by L. Ann Wheeler
The Mother of All Questions
Essays by Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books, March 2017
$14.95; 192 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1608467402
If you read one book about feminism this summer, let ...
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Reviewed by B.J. Hollars
Imagine Wanting Only This
Graphic Memoir by Kristen Radtke
Pantheon, April 2017
$29.95; 288 pp.
ISBN13: 978-1101870839
In her essay, “Time and Distance Overcome,” writer Eula ...
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Reviewed by Daniel Pecchenino
Freebird
A novel by Jon Raymond
Graywolf Press, January 2017
$26.00; 336 pp.
ISBN13: 978-1555977603
About halfway through Jon Raymond’s new novel Freebird, the narrative ...
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Reviewed by George Drew
Illusion of an Overwhelm
Poems by John Amen
NYQ BOOKS, April 2017
$15.83; 72 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1630450489
In “Hallelujah Anima,” the first section of Illusion of an ...
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Reviewed by Tyler Sheldon
Then Winter
Poems by Chloe Honum
Bull City Press, April 2017
$12.00; 36 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1495157653
Chloe Honum’s chapbook Then Winter is a dark, insightful study of ...
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Reviewed by Adam Mills
Universal Harvester
A novel by John Darnielle
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2017
$25.00; 224 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0374282103
To get the easiest assessment out of the way: ...
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