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Boxing the Compass

Book Review by Anonymous

Boxing the Compass, Sandy Florian. Noemi Press, 2013. Paper: $15. 114 pages.

In Sandy Florian’s Boxing the Compass, the reader encounters a novella by an author whose restlessness with English pushes her to reinvent her idiom altogether from work …

The Testing of Luther Albright

Book Review by Anonymous

The Testing of Luther Albright, by MacKenzie Bezos. Harper, 2005. $14.99, 256 pages.

Some readers maintain that plots conform to several basic skeletons, with minor variations in between. Regardless of whether this is true, of the models currently on …

Água Viva

Book Review by Anonymous

Água Viva, by Clarice Lispector (translated by Stefan Tobler). New Directions, 2012. $14.95. 88 pages.

Without time, without names, without actions, Clarice Lispector’s novel Água Viva recalls the style of her other novels—a woman’s interior monologue. Here she is …

Farther Away

Book Review by Anonymous

Farther Away, by Jonathan Franzen. FSG, 2012. $26.00, 336 pages.

The idea that Jonathan Franzen is a man who might have fit in better half a century ago is tossed around quite often, and for good reason: he writes …

Incarnadine

Book Review by Anonymous

Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist. Graywolf Press, 2013. $15.00, 80 pages.

“I’m not religious, I’m spiritual”—at long last, the eye-roll inducing mantra is granted explanation and elegance in Mary Szybist’s second collection of poetry. “Incarnadine” is a word whose Latin …

Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle

Book Review by Anonymous

Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle, by Justin Nobel. Zoom Books, 2012. $12.00, 105 pages.

Justin Nobel’s autobiographical psycho-geography of New York is at turns disciplined and whimsical, insightful and playful. Structured around eleven site-specific observations or reflections, the …

Where the West Ends

Book Review by Anonymous

Where the West Ends, by Michael Totten. CreateSpace, 2012. $19.95, 282 pages.

Where the West Ends is a collection of travel essays by the foreign correspondent and policy analyst Michael Totten, whose journeys here span thirteen countries. At times, …

Murder Ballad

Book Review by Anonymous

Murder Ballad, by Jane Springer. Alice James Books, 2012. $15.95, 80 pages.

Billie Holiday presides over Jane Springer’s Murder Ballad, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. It’s not the public radio cliché of the flower-wearing chanteuse that shadows …

The American (Busboy) Dream

Book Review by Anonymous

American Busboy, by Matthew Guenette. The University of Akron Press, 2011. $14.95, 64 pages.

American Busboy is an edgy take on the highs and lows of thankless work. Matthew Guenette dives deep into the service industry, unearthing the strange …

Minimal Damage

Book Review by Anonymous

Minimal Damage: Stories of Veterans, by H. Lee Barnes. University of Nevada Press, 2007. $24.95, 200 pages.

In H. Lee Barnes’ short story collection, Minimal Damage: Stories of Veterans, the physical damage the characters suffer may be small, …

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