Articles in Book Reviews
Review of the book “The Confidant” by Helene Gremillon
Review of the book “The Confidant” by Helene Gremillon
Review by Ben Macnair
Helene Gremillon’s new novel ‘The Confidant’ is the type of book that hooks you from the beginning, and by …
Review of the book “I Suck at Girls”
Review of the book “I Suck at Girls” by Justin Halpern
Review by Ben Macnair
Following the critical and commercial success of ‘Sh*t my Dad Says’ would be no easy task, but …
Review of An Object of Beauty
Review of An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Review by Ben Macnair
Hardcover, 292 pages
Published November 23rd 2010 by Grand Central Publishing (first published January 1st 2010)
ISBN 0446573647
Steve Martin’s third novel …
Review of Fifty Shades of Grey
Review of Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
Review by Katrina Lumsden
What in the hell just happened? Did I really read that? Oh, my god, I did. I did read …
eview of James D Quinton’s new book.
The City Is On Fire And Has Been For Weeks by James D Quinton
Explosive Books, 9780956782311 Available from Amazon
Review by Ben Macnair
Following the well-received Street Psalms James D Quinton returns …
Review of Dang
Dang
24 pages, stapled, black and white.
April 2012 issue.
It had been awhile since I went to record store. I mean a real record store, where they sell vinyl almost exclusively. There’s …
Review of White Tiger by Aravind Aduga
Desperate for Success
by Jennifer Smith
In the novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Aduga, the protagonist Balram is wanted for murdering Mr. Ashok, his boss. However, he does not live a …
Review of Charles Potts – Inside Idaho
Review of Charles Potts – Inside Idaho
by Marc Pietrzykowski
For a few years, at the tail end of graduate school and the nose end of my post-graduate life, I wrote many …
Review of Cramped Uptown by Amy Temple Harper
Cramped Uptown
by Amy Temple Harper
34 ppg, Hard Cover, bound by Spork Press
Review by Travis Catsull
Cramped Uptown is the first book from Amy Temple Harper and it’s a thing of beauty …
Review of The Flood
Review of The Flood, a book of poetry by Chiwan Choi
Book review by Nathaniel Kostar
Los Angeles based poet Chiwan Choi’s the flood from Tia Chucha Press is a monster of …
Review of the book, God Collar
Book Review – God Collar by Marcus Brigstocke
by Ben MacNair
Transworld Publishing – ISBN 978-0-593-06736-9
Marcus Brigstocke is a well known comedy face on Television, a well known comedy voice on Radio, …
Review of Indignez-vous (Cry out!)
“The productivist obsession of the West has plunged the world into a crisis which can only be resolved by a radical shift away from the ‘ever more’, in the world of finance but also in science and technology. It is high time that ethics, justice and a sustainable balance prevailed…”
Review of The Radleys by Matt Haig
The Radleys by Matt Haig
Canongate – ISBN 978 1847 678614
Review by Ben McNair
It is never easy growing up. Trying to find your way in the world, trying to excel in …
Review of Transgay Poetics by Richard Livermore
Christopher Barnes Reviews Transgay Poetics by Richard Livermore
RAINBOW COLOURED CAT’S CRADLES
Christopher Barnes reviews Transgay Poetics by Richard Livermore
Published by Chanticleer Press £4 from 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh EH3 6HN
In his …
Review of Asunder
Asunder
Fiction by Robert Lopez
Dzanc Books, November 2010
Paperback: 165pp; $16.95
Review by Alex Myers
A dense collection, Asunder is half short stories, most of them very short, and half a novella-in-shorts. …
Review of Head Off & Split
Head Off and Split by Nikky Finney
Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, February 2011
Paperback: 97pp; $15.95
Review by JodiAnn Stevenson
Nikky Finney’s Head Off & Split is a collection of 27 poems arranged …
Review of Nick Admussen’s Movie Plots
Creating the Impossible
A review of Nick Admussen’s Movie Plots
by Nathaniel Kostar
Nick Admussen’s Movie Plots is an original new chapbook published by Epiphany Editions. In 30 prose poems that take …
Review of Dart by Alice Oswald
Dart by Alice Oswald
Published by Faber and Faber
Review by Cameron Self
Dart is unusual in that, although it comprises a sequence of poems, it is essentially one long poem – detailing …
Review of Drive By by John Bennett
Drive By: Shards & Poems by John Bennett
Lummox Press, San Pedro, CA
ISBN: 978-1-929878-09-3
140 pgs, $15.00
I will simply put it this way; I think that John Bennett is one of the …
Review of Now That We’re Here by Elizabeth Rees
Winner of the 2007 Spire Poetry Chapbook Award
Now That We’re Here
(c)2008, Elizabeth Rees ISBN 13: 978-1-934828-01-4, $8.00.
“It is surprising to find in any book so many poems which reward …
Review of Shane Allison’s book “Slut Machine”
In these days of politically correct, non-subversive, bad-for-the-queer-movement sex negativity, it’s incredibly refreshing to see someone celebrate the sluttiness queer life has to offer despite all …
Review of Lunch Poems and Delta Blues
Review of LUNCH POEMS by MARK YOUNG and DELTA BLUES by SKIP FOX and LUNCH POEMS by Mark Young
Reviews by EILEEN TABIOS
So-called perfection in poetry doesn’t interest me. …
Review of The Red Buddha by B.L. Kennedy
Review of The Red Buddha
by B.L. Kennedy
The Red Buddha
Maia Penfold Hcolom Press
Ellensburg, WA
ISBN: 978-0-9776783-3-4
169 pgs
$15.00
One of the hard things about being a literary critic is …
Review of The Wasp Factory
The Wasp Factory is written in the first person and the viewpoint character is a sixteen-year-old boy named Frank Cauldhame. Frank is not an average teenager and, young though he …
Review of Mayweed by Frannie Lindsay
Winner of the 2009 Word Works Washington Prize, Mayweed, Frannie Lindsay’s third collection, weaves lyrical textures of grief and healing. Lindsay’s poems are accessible and musical, each …
Review of Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
by Ben Macnair
In 1985, a 21 year old Bret Easton Ellis released his first novel, Less than Zero, and the controversial novel of …
Review of Carmelo by Sandra Cisneros
Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros
Knopf, 448pp., $24
No one ever said that writing an epic novel is easy. Writing a good epic novel is even less easy. Leslie Marmon Silko, in describing the …
Review of James Tate’s Memoir of the Hawk
Review of James Tate’s Memoir of the Hawk
One is easily impressed by James Tate’s credentials. After all, he has been the celebrated oddball/bad boy of American poetry for …
Review of “Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds”
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds
By Lyndall Gordon
Reviewed by Polly Longsworth
Among a spate of biographical and fictional works about Emily Dickinson pouring forth this year is …
Review of The Really Funny Thing About Apathy
The Really Funny Thing About Apathy By Chelsea Martin
Reviewed by Laura Ellen Scot
Sunnyoutside, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-934513-24-8
Paperback, 68 pp., $13
The rhetoric swings from playful to paranoid in Chelsea Martin’s The Really …
