Verso Review by Brian Tanguay Catherine Liu doesn’t write like your typical academic. This is what I noticed first about her latest book, Traumatized, a slender volume that delivers in…
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson by Ted Geltner
Iowa Review by George Yatchisin Is it possible to feel sad considering the life of someone who authored nine novels (one a winner of the National Book Award), a novella,…
Starting from Paterson by Garret Keizer
Eastover Review by Walter Cummins The nine essays in Keizer’s collection perhaps may be divided into three categories—character studies of individuals close to the author, a report on his religious…
When The World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine by Francesca Albanese, Translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti
Other Press Review by Brian Tanguay Francesca Albanese is a brave woman, a living example of a public figure who follows her most deeply held convictions wherever they lead, regardless…
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
Knopf Review by David Starkey When I finished reading Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel Land, I thought of an Aboriginal Australian proverb that roughly translates as “Land is the story of…
Killing Spree by Jorie Graham
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Laura Mullen “Then the rain came and we thought it / might clean us. / It did not clean us.” In his Theses on…
Talking to the Wolf by Rebecca Chace
Red Hen Review by Walter Cummins The inseparability of past and present permeates this novel through the lives of the four women friends whose stories alternate in the telling. It…
Body Double by Hanna Johansson, translated by Kira Josefsson
Catapult Review by Walter Cummins Although I read a translation of this novel, I assume the English sentence structure replicates that of the original Swedish, a series of flat statements…
Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I have never read a novel in which the protagonist searches for someone to take their life. Meet Agnes Maurer, follow her over the course…
Washington Is Burning: Corruption and Lies in the Age of Trump by Andrew Cockburn
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay Andrew Cockburn opens this timely collection by recounting the exploits of his distinguished relative, Admiral Sir George Cockburn of the Royal Navy, during the War…