The War of the Foxes by Richard Siken After the success of his first book of poetry, Crush, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets...

Alan Michael Parker, The Committee on Town Happiness “Had the edge moved in the night?” “Where did the balloon go?” “How do you measure...

Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering: New & Collected Essays In Loitering: New & Collected Essays, Charles D’Ambrosio’s first book in eight...

Romeo Bones by Ron Salutsky The innocence and desire for love in a first book—I’ll never get over it. There is an intimacy in trusting...

David Kirby, A Wilderness of Monkeys. The title of David Kirby’s collection appears to indict humankind. Is Kirby insulting the reader?...

The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba’i al-Madhoun Raba’i al-Madhoun’s novel, The Lady from Tel Aviv (shortlisted for the International Prize...

Paris Twilight by Russ Rymer The allure of Paris for certain Americans is a phenomenon well-known-enough by now to be a kind of American...

Fourth City: Essays From the Prison in America by Doran Larson. If the mark of a democracy were determined by how a nation treats its...

Chain Link Fence, poems by Patti White. As a child growing up in South Mississippi, I was given the chore of plucking the fascicles of...

Fourteen Stories, None Of Them Are Yours, a novel by Luke B. Goebel, Fiction Collective 2. In this too-brief debut novel-in-stories,...

Whelm, a poetry collection by dawn lonsinger, Lost Horse Press Whelm by dawn lonsinger is a book of poems dominated by the forces of...

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, an anthology edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company In...

On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems, a poetry collection by Barbara Hamby, University of Pittsburgh Press. Barbara...

Claire of the Sea Light, a novel by Edwidge Danticat, Random House. Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat’s fifth novel, takes...

A novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon A River, W.W. Norton & Company. Toward the end of Once Upon a River, a farmer negotiating a...

Rise. Stories by L. Annette Binder. Sarabande Books. Obsession, pain, and longing. These are the elements that indelibly mark L. Annette...

A River So Long by Vallie Lynn Watson Veronica, the protagonist of Watson’s A River So Long, lives in a world of hotels. Her job takes...

A novel by Josh Henkin, The World Without You, Vintage The World Without You by Josh Henkin, newly released in paperback, tells the story...

A Dying Fall, A novel by Elly Griffiths, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Murder with its usual dash of mayhem, bleak British landscape,...

Poetry by Anna Journey, Vulgar Remedies. Louisiana State University Press. In “Eden and My Generation,” Larry Levis claims that the poet...