Books Reviewed Summer 2021 Amid the Crowd of Stars by Stephen Leigh Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2021 The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird Reviewed by Susan Balée Summer 2021 Now We’re Getting Somewhere by Kim Addonizio Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2021 On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light by Marge Piercy Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2021 American Melancholy: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2021 Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life by Ruth Padel Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2021 Unsettled Subjects: New Poems on Classic American Literature by Allen Stein Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Summer 2021 A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke by William Barillas, ed. Reviewed by Mark Jarman Summer 2021 Along Heroic Lines by Christopher Ricks Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Spring 2021 Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Spring 2021 The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories by Caroline Kim Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2021 Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2021 Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2021 I’m Staying Here by Marco Balzano Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2021 Salt Water by Josep Pla Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2021 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2021 Hunter’s Moon by Rie Anders Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2021 Shades & Graces by Michael Salcman Reviewed by Meg Schoerke Spring 2021 The Marble Bed by Grace Schulman Reviewed by Meg Schoerke Spring 2021 Randomly Moving Particles by Andrew Motion Reviewed by Meg Schoerke Spring 2021 Now It’s Dark by Peter Gizzi Reviewed by Meg Schoerke Spring 2021 Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey Reviewed by William H. Pritchard 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 of William 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 ← Older articles Newer articles →