Books Reviewed Spring 2021 Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee Reviewed by David Mason Spring 2021 Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay Reviewed by Brooke Allen Winter 2021 White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia by Kiki Petrosino Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Winter 2021 The Selected Letters of John Berryman, ed. by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae by John Berryman Reviewed by Meryl Natchez Winter 2021 On Seamus Heaney by R. F. Foster Reviewed by David Mason Winter 2021 Inheritors by Asako Serizawa Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2021 Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2021 Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark Reviewed by David Mason Winter 2021 The Last Great Road Bum by Héctor Tobar Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2021 For the Ride by Alice Notley Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Winter 2021 Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Winter 2021 The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Winter 2021 Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange by Tess Taylor Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Winter 2021 The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962 by Carl Rollyson Reviewed by Dean Flower Winter 2021 The Life oWilliam Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 by Carl Rollyson Reviewed by Dean Flower Winter 2021 Summer by Ali Smith Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2021 The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Winter 2021 The Inside Story by Martin Amis Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Autumn 2020 Beethoven: A Life by Jan Caeyers Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Autumn 2020 A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok Reviewed by Mark Jarman Autumn 2020 Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea by Alice Oswald Reviewed by Mark Jarman Autumn 2020 The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry By Women by Dick Davis, translator Reviewed by Mark Jarman Autumn 2020 The Light Acknowledgers & Other Poems by Gerry Cambridge Reviewed by Mark Jarman Autumn 2020 Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman by Joseph Harrison Reviewed by Mark Jarman Autumn 2020 And Not to Break by Janet Sylvester Reviewed by Mark Jarman Autumn 2020 To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe by Matthew Lockwood Reviewed by Brooke Allen Autumn 2020 An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2020 Exposition by Nathalie Léger Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2020 Skyland by Andrew Durbin Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2020 Drifts by Kate Zambreno Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2020 To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2020 Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach, ed. by Madison Smartt Bell by Robert Stone Reviewed by David Mason Autumn 2020 The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction, ed. by Madison Smartt Bell by Robert Stone Reviewed by David Mason Autumn 2020 The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James: The Sacred Fount, ed. by T. J. Lustig by Henry James Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Autumn 2020 Red Stilts by Ted Kooser Reviewed by Emily Grosholz Summer 2020 The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, ed. by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner by Ralph Ellison Reviewed by Jonathan Arac Summer 2020 Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances by Paul Scolieri Reviewed by Marcia B. Siegel Summer 2020 The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters by Maria Tatar Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Summer 2020 The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be by Thomas Lynch Reviewed by Richard Tillinghast Summer 2020 Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2020 Stranger by Night by Edward Hirsch Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2020 Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2020 geode by Susan Barba Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2020 Middle Distance by Stanley Plumly Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2020 A Little History of Poetry by John Carey Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Summer 2020 Malicroix by Henri Bosco Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2020 Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2020 The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2020 Writers & Lovers by Lily King Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2020 Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch Reviewed by Susan Balée ← Older articles