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Book Reviews

Starving and Sated

  • Author Maddie Woda
  • PublishedSeptember 21, 2020April 25, 2021

Editor (now alumna) Maddie Woda reviews Jihyun Yun’s first collection,…

Review: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedAugust 12, 2020April 25, 2021

Spencer Grayson reviews Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife. Julia Alvarez’s new novel…

Everything is Personal, This is Personal Too

  • Author Emmi Mack
  • PublishedAugust 4, 2020August 4, 2020
  • 2 Comments on Everything is Personal, This is Personal Too

Editor Emmi Mack reviews Laurie Stone’s latest collection, Everything is…

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

  • Author Evan Mortimer
  • PublishedApril 24, 2020April 24, 2020

The Other People / C J Tudor / Ballantine, 01/20…

Arcana, Alive: Anne Serre’s The Fool

  • Author Sam Wilcox
  • PublishedApril 1, 2020April 1, 2020

The Fool and Other Moral Tales / Anne Serre, trans.…

Mystery At the Edge of the World: A Review of Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth

  • Author Maddie Woda
  • PublishedNovember 17, 2019November 17, 2019

Disappearing Earth / Julia Phillips / Knopf, 05/2019 – $27…

A Phoenix from the Ashes: Myth and Memorial in Sara Stridsberg’s Valerie

  • Author Ryan Daar
  • PublishedNovember 10, 2019November 11, 2019

Valerie, or The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel / Sara…

Babel Unbuilt: Alan Shapiro’s Against Translation

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedJune 29, 2019June 29, 2019

“Beginning with the fall of towers and ending with the emergence of a new voice, the mastery of Against Translation is clear…”

A Diorama of Memories: Claire Millikin’s Ransom Street

  • Author Sam Wilcox
  • PublishedJune 22, 2019January 26, 2020

“Spectres linger in the poems of Ransom Street…”

Reading Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedMarch 25, 2019March 25, 2019

Midterms season is probably not the best time to read…

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