Book Reviews
March 2015
Fancy by Jeremy M. Davies | reviewed by Dave Gunton
February 2015
The Black Signs by Lars Mørch Finborud | reviewed by Ryan Burden
The Petals of Your Eyes by Aimee Parkison | reviewed by Diane Josefowicz
Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye | reviewed by Rebecca Hussey
Crude Sketches Done in Quick Succession by Andrew Brininstool | reviewed by Jonathan Russell Clark
January 2015
Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan | reviewed by James Claffey
Paris by Marcos Giralt Torrente | reviewed by Greg Walklin
Together, Apart by Ben Hoffman | reviewed by Doug Benerofe
Bright Shards of Someplace Else by Monica McFawn | reviewed by Caitlin Corrigan
December 2014
Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis | reviewed by Catherine Gammon
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower | reviewed by Maia Nikitina
Recommended reading from our editors, 2014 | reviewed by Steve Himmer
Recommended reading from our contributors, 2014 | reviewed by Steve Himmer
Prague Summer by Jeffrey Condran | reviewed by Rachel May
Above Sugar Hill by Linda Mannheim | reviewed by Jaime Robles
Coyote by Colin Winnette | reviewed by Christopher Allen
November 2014
In the Season of Blood and Gold by Taylor Brown | reviewed by Brian Seemann
Unaccompanied Minors by Alden Jones | reviewed by Siân Griffiths
Come By Here by Tom Noyes | reviewed by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis | reviewed by Rachel S. Cordasco
Beautiful Soon Enough by Margo Berdeshevsky | reviewed by Catherine Gammon
October 2014
Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones | reviewed by Rory Fleming
Blacken Me Blacken Me Growled by Cassandra Troyan | reviewed by Caleb Tankersley
Galaga by Michael Kimball | reviewed by Curtis Smith
Thrown by Kerry Howley | reviewed by Matthew Wake
Bald New World by Peter Tieryas Liu | reviewed by Catherine Gammon
September 2014
The Poison that Purifies You by Elizabeth Kadetsky | reviewed by Diane Josefowicz
Bigfoot and the Baby by Ann Gelder | reviewed by Claire Blechman
Carry the Sky by Kate Gray | reviewed by Julia Fine
Young Skins by Colin Barrett | reviewed by Christopher Allen
Doll Palace by Sara Lippmann | reviewed by Christopher Allen
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History | reviewed by Serena W. Lin
August 2014
Every Kiss a War by Leesa Cross-Smith | reviewed by Benjamin Woodard
Miruna: a Tale by Bogdan Suceavă | reviewed by Stephen Piccarella
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique | reviewed by Rebecca Hussey
The Conductor and Other Tales by Jean Ferry | reviewed by Matt Pincus
Mountainfit by Meera Lee Sethi | reviewed by Erica Olsen
Family Heirlooms by Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares | reviewed by Tim Ellison
Not the End by Kate Vane | reviewed by Susan Jupp
Aaron's Leap by Magdaléna Platzová | reviewed by Tyler Koshakow
New publisher spotlight: Readux Books | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Uncertainty Principle by rob mclennan | reviewed by Sheldon Lee Compton
An Unsuitable Princess by Jane Rosenberg LaForge | reviewed by Diane Josefowicz
A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies by Douglas Watson | reviewed by Leland Cheuk
July 2014
Echo Lake by Letitia Trent | reviewed by Ariell Cacciola
Dead Stars by Álvaro Bisama | reviewed by Greg Walklin
BYRD by Kim Church | reviewed by Anna Stusser
Train Shots by Vanessa Blakeslee | reviewed by Rebecca Hussey
June 2014
Commentary (A Tale) by Marcelle Sauvageot | reviewed by J.M. Gamble
Backswing by Aaron Burch | reviewed by Curtis Smith
Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop | reviewed by Caitlin Corrigan
A Shelter of Others by Charles Dodd White | reviewed by Brian Seemann
Dreaming Rodin by John Michael Flynn | reviewed by Benjamin Woodard
Death at the Museum of Modern Art by Alma Lazarevska | reviewed by Marina Sofia
Understudies by Ravi Mangla | reviewed by Claudia Smith
A Handful of Sand by Marinko Koščec | reviewed by Tim Ellison
The Otherwise Fables by Oscar Mandel | reviewed by Avgi Meleti
What Happened Here by Bonnie ZoBell | reviewed by Laryssa Wirstiuk
Sad Robot Stories by Mason Johnson | reviewed by Kelsie Hahn
Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle | reviewed by Jacob M. Appel
The Best Book in the World by Peter Stjernström | reviewed by Simon Collinson
Out of Dublin by Ethel Rohan | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
May 2014
Colony Collapse by J.A. Tyler | reviewed by Bayard Godsave
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay | reviewed by Thomas Michael Duncan
Thanksgiving by Ellen Cooney | reviewed by Caitlin Corrigan
The Reluctant Cannibals by Ian Flitcroft | reviewed by Susan Jupp
A Fairy Tale by Jonas T. Bengtsson | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Threshold by David Hartley | reviewed by Winnie Khaw
April 2014
The Heart of June by Mason Radkoff | reviewed by Alex DeBonis
Conquistador of the Useless by Joshua Isard | reviewed by Curtis Smith
The Whiskey Baron by Jon Sealy | reviewed by Brian Seemann
The Desert Places by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss, with illustrations by Matt Kish | reviewed by Nick Kocz
March 2014
Quarry Light by Claudia Smith | reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
The Swimmers by Joaquín Pérez Azaústre | reviewed by Liam Bishop
Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor | reviewed by James Yates
I Stole the Rain by Elisa Ruotolo | reviewed by James Claffey
A Simplified Map of the Real World by Stevan Allred | reviewed by Maria Anderson
Songs for the Deaf by John Henry Fleming | reviewed by Sarah Suksiri
The Death of Fidel Pérez by Elizabeth Huergo | reviewed by Olivia Chadha
Canicule by Louis Armand | reviewed by Bayard Godsave
August by Christa Wolf | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Commercial Fiction by Dave Housley | reviewed by J.M. Gamble
February 2014
The Other Room by Kim Triedman | reviewed by Susan Rukeyser
How to Shake the Other Man by Derek Palacio | reviewed by Brian Seemann
Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson | reviewed by James Yates
Liliane's Balcony by Kelcey Parker | reviewed by Laura Knight Moretz
January 2014
Half as Happy by Gregory Spatz | reviewed by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
BTW by Jarett Kobek | reviewed by Curtis Smith
The Dark by Sergio Chejfec | reviewed by Tara Olmsted
December 2013
Where is My Mask of an Honest Man? by Laura Del-Rivo | reviewed by Amber Kelly-Anderson
Cartilage and Skin by Michael James Rizza | reviewed by Kelsie Hahn
You Only Get Letters from Jail by Jodi Angel | reviewed by Brian Seemann
Search Party by Valerie Trueblood | reviewed by Susan Rukeyser
The Decline of Pigeons by Janice Deal | reviewed by Matthew Kabik
November 2013
Housebound by Elizabeth Gentry | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Virgins by Pamela Erens | reviewed by Ed Davis
The Taste of Marmalade by Tessa McWatt | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Microtones by Robert Vaughan | reviewed by Nancy Freund
Whatever Don't Drown Will Always Rise by Justin Lawrence Daugherty | reviewed by Peter Tieryas Liu
My Beauty by Rowena Macdonald | reviewed by Thomas Michael Duncan
Bess by Daphne Gottlieb | reviewed by Paula McGrath
First Book of Frags by Dave Lordan | reviewed by Philip Coleman
October 2013
Red Room:New Short Stories Inspired by the Brontës | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Hypothetical Girl by Elizabeth Cohen | reviewed by Maria Anderson
Sorrow by Catherine Gammon | reviewed by Erin Lewenauer
Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan | reviewed by James Claffey
September 2013
TAMPA by Alissa Nutting | reviewed by Michael Wayne Hampton
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Man Who Noticed Everything by Adrian Van Young | reviewed by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Paper Dreams | reviewed by Curtis Smith
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell | reviewed by Jeffrey Condran
August 2013
Beacons: Stories for our not so distant future | reviewed by Caitlin Corrigan
Grey Cats by Adam Biles | reviewed by Susan Jupp
An Elegy for Mathematics by Anne Valente | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Little Raw Souls by Steven Schwartz | reviewed by Brian Seemann
Only Fools Die of Heartbreak by Thor Garcia | reviewed by Gabino Iglesias
Spolia | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Why We Never Talk About Sugar by Aubrey Hirsch | reviewed by Erin McKnight
Hauptbahnhof by Joanna Walsh | reviewed by Bobbi Lurie
Death of a Ladies' Man by Christiana Spens | reviewed by Maria Anderson
The Miracles of Ordinary Men by Amanda Leduc | reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
Fun Camp by Gabe Durham | reviewed by Michael Wayne Hampton
July 2013
Bear Season by Bernie Hafeli | reviewed by Kristen Orser
The Consummation of Dirk by Jonathan Callahan | reviewed by Charles Dodd White
Flashes of War by Katey Schultz | reviewed by Jeffrey Condran
Beasts & Men by Curtis Smith | reviewed by Matthew Kabik
What You Are Now Enjoying by Sarah Gerkensmeyer | reviewed by Maggie Desmond-O'Brien
June 2013
Entertaining Strangers by Jonathan Taylor | reviewed by Paula McGrath
Last Call in the City of Bridges by Salvatore Pane | reviewed by Michael Wayne Hampton
The Great Disappointment by Kathryn Dow | reviewed by Nancy Freund
Is That You, John Wayne? by Scott Garson | reviewed by Curtis Smith
Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey by Daniel Mueller | reviewed by Melanie Page
I Am Holding Your Hand by Myfanwy Collins | reviewed by Brian Seemann
Summer Reviews Special: Recommendations from our reviewers | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
More Stories about Spaceships and Cancer by Casper Kelly | reviewed by Cortney Bledsoe
Grind by Mark Maynard | reviewed by Joe Trinkle
Make It Stay by Joan Frank | reviewed by Susan Jupp
Spark by Courtney Elizabeth Mauk | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Strategies Against Extinction by Michael Nye | reviewed by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
The Brain Harvest by Ken Nash | reviewed by Ryan Werner
May 2013
Haven's Wake by Ladette Randolph | reviewed by Kathy Fish
The President In Her Towers: a report by Tom Whalen | reviewed by David Rose
Building Waves by Taeko Tomioka | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
One by Blake Butler and Vanessa Place | reviewed by Peter Tieryas Liu
April 2013
A Floating Life by Tad Crawford | reviewed by Nancy Freund
Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality by Bill Peters | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Almost Gone by Brian Sousa | reviewed by Ethel Rohan
The Way We Sleep | reviewed by Michael Beeman
Low Down Death Right Easy by J. David Osborne | reviewed by Michael J. Seidlinger
March 2013
SaltWater by Lane Ashfeldt | reviewed by Paula McGrath
The Way of the Dog by Sam Savage | reviewed by Steve Himmer
The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
18% Gray by Zachary Karabashliev | reviewed by Tara Cheesman
February 2013
The Mere Weight of Words by Carissa Halston | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
In the Body by Allison Baggio | reviewed by Shawn Syms
The Plum Rains by John Givens | reviewed by Susan Jupp
Stupid Children by Lenore Zion | reviewed by Thomas Michael Duncan
January 2013
Tell Everyone I Said Hi by Chad Simpson | reviewed by Jess Stoner
A Bouquet by Karel Jaromir Erben | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon? by Simon Okotie | reviewed by Steve Himmer
May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks | reviewed by Brian Seemann
December 2012
Best European Fiction 2013 | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Heart of Scorpio by Joseph Avski | reviewed by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Beneath the Liquid Skin by Berit Ellingsen | reviewed by Robyn Goss
My Mother was an Upright Piano by Tania Hershman | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
November 2012
People With Holes by Heather Fowler | reviewed by Jess Stoner
A Floating World by Karen Best | reviewed by Matt Dube
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Same Terrible Storm by Sheldon Lee Compton | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
October 2012
The House Enters the Street by Gretchen E. Henderson | reviewed by Jess Stoner
The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men by Adam Prince | reviewed by Nancy Freund
Àgua Viva by Clarice Lispector | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Little Sinners by Karen Brown | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The White Goddess by Simon Gough | reviewed by Steve Himmer
September 2012
Breakfast At Midnight by Louis Armand | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Lesser Apocalypses by Bayard Godsave | reviewed by Wendy Lotterman
Hymnal for Dirty Girls by Rebekah Matthews | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Names of Things by John Colman Wood | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
August 2012
The Sky Conducting by Michael Seidlinger | reviewed by Jess Stoner
I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński | reviewed by Laura McCune Poplin
Rim/Wave by David Giannini | reviewed by Wendy Lotterman
Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney | reviewed by Steve Himmer
July 2012
Shut Up/Look Pretty | reviewed by Jillian Phillips
The Maladjusted by Derek Hayes | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Revelation by Colin Winnette | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Islands by Carlos Gamerro | reviewed by Steve Himmer
June 2012
Into This World by Sybil Baker | reviewed by Susan Jupp
Fame & Madness in America by Garrett Socol | reviewed by Nancy Freund
The China Factory by Mary Costello | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Notes from the Committee by Catherine Kasper | reviewed by Evan Harris
May 2012
Jailed by Myra Sherman | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Kino by Jürgen Fauth | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Miss Fuller by April Bernard | reviewed by Nancy Freund
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
April 2012
Light Without Heat by Matthew Kirkpatrick | reviewed by Robert Kloss
Variations of a Brother War by J.A. Tyler | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Love Sketches by David Appleby | reviewed by Susan Jupp
All Her Father's Guns by James Warner | reviewed by Nancy Freund
The State of Kansas by Julianna Spallholz | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
March 2012
Crash & Tell by Lori Baker | reviewed by Jess Stoner
The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
We Bury the Landscape by Kristine Ong Muslim | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold | reviewed by Steve Himmer
February 2012
In the Time of the Blue Ball by Manuela Draeger | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Echolocation by Myfanwy Collins | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Laikonik Express by Nick Sweeney | reviewed by Susan Jupp
Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories by Greg Hrbek | reviewed by Ashley Cowger
January 2012
And Also Sharks by Jessica Westhead | reviewed by Jess Stoner
The Mimic's Own Voice by Tom Williams | reviewed by Laura McCune Poplin
Omicron Ceti III by Thomas P. Balázs | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
There is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out by Madeline McDonnell | reviewed by Nancy Freund
The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
December 2011
A Friend in the Police by John Givens | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Ayiti by Roxane Gay | reviewed by Thomas Michael Duncan
How to Stop Loving Someone by Joan Connor | reviewed by Ashley Cowger
November 2011
Sherry & Narcotics by Nina-Marie Gardner | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Authors | reviewed by Robert Kloss
Amazing Adult Fantasy by A.D. Jameson | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda | reviewed by Steve Himmer
October 2011
Bear Down, Bear North by Melinda Moustakis | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Princess, the King and the Anarchist by Robert Pagani | reviewed by Susan Jupp
the stinging fly: issue 18 | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur by Mathias Svalina | reviewed by Jess Stoner
The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney by Christopher Higgs | reviewed by Robert Kloss
September 2011
So You Know It's Me by Brian Oliu | reviewed by Laura McCune Poplin
Death Wishing by Laura Ellen Scott | reviewed by Amye Archer
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals by Rae Bryant | reviewed by Beth Posniak Fiencke
From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet by Patrick Michael Finn | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
August 2011
The Vanishing Point of Desire by Vi Khi Nao | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Katzenjammered by Norma Kassirer | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Girl with Brown Fur by Stacey Levine | reviewed by Steve Himmer
Domestic Apparition by Meg Tuite | reviewed by Faye Rapoport DesPres
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
July 2011
Summer recommendations | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Unfinished by Lily Hoang | reviewed by Jess Stoner
The New Moscow Philosophy by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn by Sean Dixon | reviewed by Nancy Freund
June 2011
Normally Special by xTx | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Cowboy Maloney's Electric City by Michael Bible | reviewed by Jess Stoner
Daddy's by Lindsay Hunter | reviewed by Chelsea Biondolillo
Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls by Cris Mazza | reviewed by Valerie Nieman
May 2011
How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Fabric: Preludes to the Last American Book by Richard Froude | reviewed by Jess Stoner
apt, a literary journal | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot by Robert Levin | reviewed by Nancy Freund
Giraffes in Hiding by Carol Novack | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
April 2011
Abbott Awaits by Chris Bachelder | reviewed by Steve Himmer
Seven Years by Peter Stamm | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Nahoonkara by Peter Grandbois | reviewed by Ben Forsberg
Marry or Burn by Valerie Trueblood | reviewed by John Oliver Perry
March 2011
I Have Touched You by Gregory Sherl | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Sum of His Syndromes by K. B. Dixon | reviewed by Nancy Freund
Peter Never Came by Ashley Cowger | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Impotent by Matthew Roberson | reviewed by C.J. Opperthauser
February 2011
My Business is to Create by Eric G. Wilson | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Orange Suitcase by Joseph Riippi | reviewed by Nancy Freund
Blood Lotus #19 | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique | reviewed by Rebecca Hussey
January 2011
Where We Going, Daddy by Jean-Louis Fournier | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Gasoline by Quim Monzo | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
The Mothering Coven by Joanna Ruocco | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones
