Review Books

Fiction

How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique (Graywolf, 3-10)
Cut Away by Catherine Kirkwood (Arktoi, 4-10)
Thief by Maureen Gibbon (FSG, 5-10)
Obabakoak: Stories from a Village by Bernardo Atxaga (Graywolf, 3-10)
The Heights by Peter Hedges (Dutton, 3-10)
The Silver Hearted by David McConnell (Alyson, 3-10)
One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau (ECW, 5-10)
O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno (Chiasmus, 4-10)
The Only Thing I Have by Rhonda Waterfall (Arsenal Pulp, 4-10)
Father of the Rain by Lily King (Grove Atlantic, 7-10)
An Dantomine Eerly by J. R. D. Middleton (Dark Coast, 4-10)
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo (Harper, 3-10)
Bone Dogs by Roger Alan Skipper (Counterpoint, 4-10)
The Last Rendezvous by Anne Plantagenet (Other, 3-10)
A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei (Penguin, 4-10)
The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci (Other, 4-10)
The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm (Other, 2-10)
Call It What You Want by Keith Lee Morris (Tin House, 4-10)
Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa (Black Cat, 4-10)
The Season of Second Chances by Diane Meier (Holt, 4-10)
Rattlesnakes & The Moon by Darlin' Neal (Press 53, 3-10)

Nonfiction

Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin (Shocken, 2-10)
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence by Kim Dana Kupperman (Graywolf, 7-10)
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather (Oxford UP, 3-10)
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams (Penguin, 5-10)
Ego & Soul: The Modern West in Search of Meaning by John Carroll (Counterpoint, 4-10)
So Late, So Soon by Carol Moldaw (Etruscan, 6-10)
Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront by Nathan Ward (FSG, 6-10)

Poetry

The Best of It by Kay Ryan (Grove, 3-10)
Mute by Raymond Luczak (A Midsummer Night's Press, 4-10)
Handmade Love by Julie R. Enszer (A Midsummer Night's Press, 4-10)
Inside, Outside, Morningside by Marjorie Kowalski Cole (Ester Republic, 2-10)
Anamnesis by Lucy Ives (Slope Editions, 1-10)
A Cake Appeared by Shane Jones (Scrambler, 2010)
Multiverse by Mike Smith (BlazeVOX, 2-10)

Fiction

Bartleby, the Sportscaster by Ted Pelton (Subito, 2010)
Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami (Pegasus, 1-10)
Adam Gould by Julia O'Faolain (Telegram, 4-10)
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe by Dawn Raffel (Dzanc, 3-10)
Currency by Zoe Zolbrod (Dzanc, 5-10)
The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge (Counterpoint, 6-10)
White Masks by Elias Khoury (Archipelago, 4-10)
Cities of Night by Philip Nutman (Chizine, 6-10)
The Room and the Chair by Lorraine Adams (Knopf, 2-10)
By Accident by Susan Kelly (Pegasus, 5-10)
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled, 5-10)
Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell (Holt, 6-10)
The Taste of Penny by Jeff Parker (Dzanc, 5-10)

Nonfiction

The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll by Mark Edmundson (Harper, 5-10)
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan (Random House, 2-10)
Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black & White by Brooke Newman (Harmony, 4-10)
The Journal Keeper by Phyllis Theroux (Atlantic Monthly, 3-10)
Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick (Ecco, 3-10)
Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato by Arthur Allen (Counterpoint, 3-10)

Poetry

(nevertheless enjoyment by Elizabeth Bryant (Quale, 3-10)
The Intricated Soul by Sherod Santos (Norton, 3-10)
Venison by Thorpe Moeckel (Etruscan, 5-10)
Swerve by Bruce Cohen (Black Lawrence, 2010)
Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner (Copper Canyon, 5-10)
The Living Fire by Edward Hirsch (Knopf, 3-10)
Tocqueville by Khaled Mattawa (New Issues, 4-10)
Entrepot by Mark McMorris (Coffee House, 2-10)
Find the Girl by Lightsey Darst (Coffee House, 4-10)
Shoulder Season by Ange Mlinko (Coffee House, 4-10)
darkacre by Greg Hewett (Coffee House, 4-10)

Fiction

Truth by Peter Temple (FSG, 5-10)
The Wedding in Auschwitz by Erich Hackl (Serpent's Tail, 4-10)
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell (HMH, 4-10)
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (Graywolf, 8-10)
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor (Bloomsbury, 3-10)
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George (Harper, 5-10)
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens (Little, Brown, 2-10)
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss (Archipelago, 1-10)
Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern (Viking, 6-10)
In a Dark Wood by Marcel Moring (Harper, 2-10)
To Mervas by Elisabeth Rynell (Archipelago, 5-10)
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine (FSG, 2-10)
Delta Blues edited by Carolyn Haines (Tyrus, 5-10)
Thunder Beach by Michael Lister (Tyrus, 5-10)
The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern (Algonquin, 5-10)
Captivity by Deborah Noyes (Unbridled, 6-10)
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (Bloomsbury, 2-10)
Savage Lands by Clare Clark (HMH, 2-10)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (Tin House, 5-10)

Nonfiction

The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman (FSG, 2-10)
The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies by Toby Talbot (Columbia UP, 11-09)
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt (Penguin, 3-10)
Video Slut by Sharon Oreck (Faber and Faber, 5-10)
My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times by Gerald M. Boyd (Lawrence Hill, 2-10)
Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka by Adele Barker (Beacon, 1-10)
Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind by Binnie Klein (SUNY P, 1-10)
Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa (Counterpoint, 3-10)
The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt and David Mikics (Harvard UP, 4-10)
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948 edited by Karen Lauer and Kristian Wachinger (Other, 2-10)
52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust by William Alexander (Algonquin, 5-10)
Where Are We Going, Daddy?: Life with Two Boys Unlike Any Others by Jean-Louis Fournier (Other, 5-10)

Poetry

Clops by Devin King (Green Lantern, 2009)
The Imperfect by George Tysh (United Artists, 2010)
Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman edited by Ben Mazer (Harvard UP, 4-10)
If There Is Something to Desire: 100 Poems by Vera Pavlova (Knopf, 1-10)
The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems by Paul Farley (Faber and Faber, 5-10)

Poetry

Wait by C. K. Williams (FSG, 5-4-10)
Moving Blanket by Kostas Anagnopoulos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2-10)
g-point almanac: passyunk lost by Kevin Carrone (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2-10)
Look Back, Look Ahead by Srecko Kosovel (Ugly Duckling Presse, 3-10)
Rain by Don Paterson (FSG, 4-1-10)
Petals of Zero Petals of One by Andrew Zawacki (Talisman House, 2009)
When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother by Melissa Broder (Ampersand, 2009)
On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek (Copper Canyon, 2-10)

Nonfiction

Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterly (Algonquin, 1-26-10)
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone (FSG, 1-12-10)
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon (Harper, 1-5-10)
Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity by Ytasha Womack (Lawrence Hill, 1-10)
We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama by Stephen Tuck (Harvard UP, 1-25-10)
The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenhem (MIT, 1-31-10)
The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays by Durs Grunbein (FSG, 4-20-10)
Natural Experiments of History edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (Harvard UP, 1-15-10)
Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History by Diana Wells (Algonquin, 1-19-10)
Treatise on Elegant Living by Honore de Balzac (Wakefield, 3-10)
Americans in Paris: Life & Death under Nazi Occupation (Penguin, 1-11-10)
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Oxford UP, 12-17-09)
Lake Views: This World and the Universe (Harvard UP, 1-10)
Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West by Mark Wyman (FSG, 5-4-10)
Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular (Getty, 1-5-10)
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay (FSG, 5-4-10)
Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch (FSG, 4-20-10)
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Modern Europe by Peter Heather (Oxford University Press, 3-10)

Fiction

Currency by Zoe Zolbrod (OV, 6-15-10)
A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex (Bitter Lemon, 4-10)
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes (Viking, 1-25-10)
Pinion by Jay Lake (Tor, 4-10)
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi (Other P, 1-19-10)
The End of the Circle: Stories by Walter Cummins (Egress, 1-12-10)
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman (Graywolf, 4-10)
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe: Stories by Dawn Raffel (Dzanc, 3-16-10)
Other Resort Cities: Stories by Tod Goldberg (Other Voices, 10-27-09)
Fascia by Ashley Donielle Murray (Green Lantern, 11-09)
The Farmer's Daughter: Novellas by Jim Harrison (Grove, 1-12-10)
A Time for Everything by Karl O. Knausgaard (Archipelago, 12-1-09)
The Insurgent by Noah Cicero (PDF review copy) (BLATT, 2-10)