Books Reviewed Autumn 2019 The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic by A. E. Stallings Reviewed by Meryl Natchez Autumn 2019 Come Closer and Listen by Charles Simic Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Autumn 2019 The River Twice by Kathleen Graber Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Autumn 2019 Questioning Minds Volumes I and II: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner, ed. by Edward Burns by Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Autumn 2019 Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories (The Civil War to World War II) by Wendell Berry Reviewed by Dean Flower Autumn 2019 Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle Reviewed by David Mason Autumn 2019 Abel and Cain by Gregor von Rezzori Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2019 Oxota by Lyn Hejinian Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2019 Intimate Ties by Robert Musil Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2019 Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2019 Frozen Charlotte by Susan de Sola Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Autumn 2019 Big Cabin by Ron Padgett Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Autumn 2019 O Joy for me! Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Origins of Fell–Walking in the Lake District 1790-1802 by Keir Davidson Reviewed by Brooke Allen Autumn 2019 Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann Reviewed by Will Harrison Summer 2019 Normal People by Sally Rooney Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 Always Coming Home (Author’s Expanded Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 Tribunal by Lyn Hejinian Reviewed by Mark Jarman Summer 2019 Fierce Pretty Things by Tom Howard Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 The British in India: A Social History of the Raj by David Gilmour Reviewed by David Mason Summer 2019 The Government Lake by James Tate Reviewed by Mark Jarman Summer 2019 John Updike: Novels 1959-1965, ed. by Christopher Carduff by John Updike Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Summer 2019 Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2019 All the Land by Jo Lendle Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 Against Translation by Alan Shapiro Reviewed by Mark Jarman Summer 2019 The Complaints by W. S. Di Piero Reviewed by Mark Jarman Summer 2019 Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by Andrei Codrescu by Lafcadio Hearn Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher Reviewed by Mark Jarman Summer 2019 Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge: Two Novellas of Japan’s 3/11 Disaster by Kimura Yūsuke Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 Sing to It: New Stories by Amy Hempel Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella by Cary Holladay Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 Exhalation by Ted Chiang Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2019 The Wall by John Lanchester Reviewed by Susan Balée Spring 2019 Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past by William Logan Reviewed by Mark Jarman Spring 2019 Love Is Blind by William Boyd Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories by Maxim Osipov Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 Women Talking by Miriam Toews Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 A Change of Time by Ida Jessen Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) by Jean Moorcroft Wilson Reviewed by David Mason Spring 2019 Felicity by Mary Oliver Reviewed by Lorna Knowles Blake Spring 2019 The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch Reviewed by Brooke Allen Spring 2019 Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski Reviewed by Lorna Knowles Blake Spring 2019 Philip Larkin: Letters Home 1936–1977, ed. James Booth by Philip Larkin Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Spring 2019 Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey Reviewed by Lorna Knowles Blake Spring 2019 Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 Horsemen of the Sands by Leonid Yuzefovich Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2019 Essex Clay by Andrew Motion Reviewed by Lorna Knowles Blake Spring 2019 Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Spring 2019 The Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima Reviewed by Robert McDowell ← Older articles