Book Reviews

Review: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

Author Thomas Mar Wee
PublishedApril 28, 2021April 25, 2021
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Editor Thomas Mar Wee reviews Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts. In the opening pages of Fake Accounts, the recent debut novel by Lauren Oyler, who is…

Like a tune you just can’t shake: Larissa Pham’s Pop Song

Editor Sofia Montrone reviews Larissa Pham’s Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy In the silence, in the dark, Larissa Pham hears something shift. First…

Starving and Sated

Author Maddie Woda
PublishedSeptember 21, 2020April 25, 2021
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Editor (now alumna) Maddie Woda reviews Jihyun Yun’s first collection, Some Are Always Hungry. In 2016, I stumbled upon Jihyun Yun’s poem “Recipe: Dak-dori-tang” in…

Review: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

Author Spencer Grayson
PublishedAugust 12, 2020April 25, 2021
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Spencer Grayson reviews Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife. Julia Alvarez’s new novel begins with verse, not prose, in a prologue titled “Broken English.” Her narrator Antonia Vega…

Everything is Personal, This is Personal Too

Author Emmi Mack
PublishedAugust 4, 2020August 4, 2020
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Editor Emmi Mack reviews Laurie Stone’s latest collection, Everything is Personal: Notes on Now. In her latest collection of hybrid nonfiction, Everything is Personal: Notes…

Finding What is Lost in C. J. Tudor’s The Other People

The Other People / C J Tudor / Ballantine, 01/20 – $27 (Hardcover) There is something relentlessly engrossing about a mystery. The suspense, the shock,…

Arcana, Alive: Anne Serre’s The Fool

Author Sam Wilcox
PublishedApril 1, 2020April 1, 2020
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The Fool and Other Moral Tales / Anne Serre, trans. by Mark Hutchinson / New Directions, 09/19 – $15 (Paperback) Repulsive, violent, confounding: that’s how…