Marream Krollos, Big City, Fiction Collective Two, 2018, $18.95 When you start Marream Krollos’s Big City, you might feel as though you...

Beth Bachmann, CEASE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. $17. Any reader familiar with Beth Bachmann’s work will remember her first...

Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, Two Dollar Radio, 2018. $16.99 Long before receiving my copy of Katya Apekina’s...

The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien, Maebh Long, ed. Dalkey Archive Press, 2018. $26.00 “To be interesting a letter has to be...

Max Ritvo. The Final Voicemails. Milkweed Editions, 2018. $22.00. I’ve known so many people with voicemails they won’t delete from their...

This Review was written by Billy Hallal and was featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 31.2. Jess Walter. We Live in Water: Stories....

This Review was written by Lisa McMurtray and was featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 33.1. Wendy Xu. You Are Not Dead. Cleveland State...

Meg Wolitzer. The Female Persuasion. Riverhead Books, 2018. $28.00. In her 2018 novel The Female Persuasion, best-selling writer Meg...

This Review was written by Peter Fontaine and was featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 29.2. Alissa Nutting. Unclean Jobs for Women and...

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman Those familiar with Neil Gaiman’s novels American Gods (2001) and Anansi Boys (2005) will know that he is...

On the cover of Until the Cows Come Home, a poetry chapbook by Alain Ginsberg, there’s an illustration of a cow skull sitting in some...

play dead by francine j. harris Several of the reviews that have been written about francine j. harris’s play dead have spoken about the...

Moonglow by Michael Chabon I firmly believe that Michael Chabon is one of the greatest American stylists writing today, and for evidence...

Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music by Kazim Ali With several volumes of poetry, books of essays, novels, and works in translation under his...

Anybody by Ari Banias Anybody, Ari Banias’s debut collection, examines our invented understanding of a world we’ve codified with language...

Isadora by Amelia Gray In “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin examines the legacy of the oral storytelling tradition and its print...

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi’s latest book, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, is a collection of short...

Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy A rare abstract sentence in Maile Meloy’s new novel Do Not Become Alarmed offers a way of...

Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann The thirty-seven poems in Matthew Olzmann’s recent collection, Contradictions in the...

The Return by Hisham Matar During the days of popular revolt against Gaddafi’s authoritarian regime, Hisham Matar—the 47-year-old Libyan...