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Weather

Book Review by John Morrow

Weather,​ by Jenny Offill. Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York, 2020. $23.95, 224 pages.

Sometimes a novel comes along out of nowhere and shocks you and shatters your heart. A few years back, one of those novels was Jenny Offill’s ​…

In the Dream House

Book Review by Kimberly Pollard

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Graywolf Press, 2019. 264 pages.

Those familiar with Carmen Maria Machado’s work have become comfortable with the distasteful, with the unfamiliar, and with the pseudo-absurd. Her first short story collection, ​Her Body …

Big Windows

Book Review by Tim Dejong

Big Windows book cover

Big Windows, by Lauren Moseley. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018. $15.95, 72 pages.

Animals—a jackal, a bear, a panther, a bobcat, a coyote—stalk through the poems in Lauren Moseley’s remarkable, unsettling recent collection Big Windows (Carnegie Mellon University Press, …

The End of Peril, The End of Enmity, The End of Strife, A Haven

Book Review by Justin Goodman

The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven

The End of Peril, The End of Enmity, The End of Strife, A Haven by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint.
Noemi Press, 2018. $15, 112 pages.

In an interview with Entropy for her debut novel The End of Peril, The End …

The Impossible Fairy Tale

Book Review by Lindsey Drager

The Impossible Fairy Tale, by Han Yujoo (translated from the Korean by Janet Hong). Graywolf Press, 2017. $16, 192 pages.


In a moment when we are questioning the authority of narrators both on the page and in the world, Han …

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Book Review by Mikaela Dauber

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, 2018. 304 pages, $26.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is the story of a nameless young woman as she attempts to engage in a year-long experiment in …

Dog Symphony

Book Review by John Mark Trahan

Dog Symphony, by Sam Munson. New Directions, 2018. 132 pages, $14.95.

Sam Munson’s Dog Symphony is a novel about state violence and hegemony, citizenship, and how these things disintegrate human personal identity. Its protagonist, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (named after the …

Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg

Book Review by Sarah Neal

Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, by Stephanie Dickinson. New Michigan Press, 2013. 63 pages, $9.

At the age of 17 in 1957, Jean Seberg was cast to play Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s film Saint Joan. A …

Spool

Book Review by Rich Murphy

Spool, by Robert Cole. Oversteps Books, 2013. 58 pages.

Robert Cole has published two small collections of poems: Inheritance published by Mandeville Press (1995) and Cafard published by Community of Poets. His first full-length book Spool was published in …

Prayer Book of the Anxious

Book Review by Robert Manaster

Prayer Book of the Anxious, by Josephine Yu, Elixir Press, 2016. 96 pp, $17.

In the middle of Josephine Yu’s Prayer Book of the Anxious, the speaker in “Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless” pleads for this …

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