Andrea Barrett Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction W.W. Norton & Company /2025 /189 pp / $26.99 Hardcover Reviewed by Amanda A. Gibson / December 2025  A few years ago, I grew fascinated with a nineteenth-century photographer, Anna Atkins, who used a photographic process called cyanotype, which employs sunshine and chemicals to make ethereal blue images. Although Atkins was the first to publish photographs, she is all but lost to history, overshadowed by male photog

Sarah Lampert, creator  Ginny & Georgia Netflix / 2021-present / TV-14 Reviewed by Raechel Sigur / October 2025 Checks and Balances: Ginny & Georgia In the world of streaming and binge-watching, Netflix’s  Ginny & Georgia stands out as a poignant, layered drama. Created by Sarah Lampert, Ginny & Georgia is a single-camera drama that traces the complicated bond between a teenage girl and her morally complex mother as they navigate identity, trauma, and the shadows of a tumul

A. Kendra Greene No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity   Tin House / March 2025 / 228 pp / $28.95 Reviewed by Laura Johnsrude / October 2025 In No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity, author and artist A. Kendra Greene marvels at the world—her personal, in-the-moment experiences—with luscious granularity. The title page notes the contents are “written and illuminated by A. Kendra Greene,” and a variety of shades-of-black images supplement the essays—ins

Michael Kelly, Editor Northern Nights Undertow Publications / 2024 / 296 pages / $20 Reviewed by V. A. Vazquez / October 2025   Michael Kelly’s anthology of Canadian horror fiction, Northern Nights , begins with a land acknowledgment. “I am a settler,” the editor professes, and it is this—the act of inhabiting, of intruding, of invading—that permeates most strongly throughout these twenty original short stories. There are few landscapes as brutal and savage as the Canadian wi

Arianna Rebolini   Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die   HarperCollins / April 2025 / 352 pp / $30 Hardcover   Reviewed by Hope...

Martín Espada Jailbreak of Sparrows Alfred A. Knopf / 2025 / 114 pp / $29 Hardback Reviewed by James Long / June 2025   About a third of...

Roisín O’Donnell Nesting Algonquin Books / February 2025 / 400 pp / $29.00 Hardcover Reviewed by pine breaks / April 2025 Nesting  is...

Diane Seuss Modern Poetry Graywolf Press / 2024 / 112 pp / $26.00 Reviewed by Melissa Shepherd / April 2025   In Modern Poetry , Diane...

Rebe Huntman My Mother in Havana:   A Memoir of Magic & Miracle Monkfish Book Publishing Company / February 2025 / 280 pp / $24.99...

Melissa Helton, editor Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky Fireside Industries, imprint of The University Press...

Lynn Stegner The Half-Life of Guilt University of New Mexico Press, Highroad Books / September 2024 / 280 pp / $27.95 Hardcover Reviewed...

Marisa Labozzetta Men Who Walk in Dreams Guernica World Editions / 2024 / 172 pp / $18.95 Paperback Reviewed by Julie Delegal / February...

Henry Hoke Open Throat: A Novel Picador / 2024 / 176 pp / $17.00 Paperback Reviewed by Delaney Aby Saalman / January 2024     “I’ve never...

Edward Burns   A Kid from Marlboro Road   Seven Stories Press / August 2024 / 220 pp / $27.95   Reviewed by Lisa McCormack / December...

Jessica Jacobs unalone Four Way Books / 2024 / 210 pp / $17.95 Paperback Reviewed by James Long / November 2024   In the preface to her...

by Lynnell Edwards    Kevin Prufer is a poet, writer, editor, and now, a novelist. His 2024 debut novel is Sleepaway , from the newly...

Jonathan Corcoran No Son of Mine: A Memoir The University of Kentucky Press / April 2024 / 248 pp / $29.95 Reviewed by Amanda G....

Jessica Hoppe First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream Flatiron Books / September 10, 2024 / 272 pp /...

Kevin Prufer Sleepaway Acre Books / April 2024 / 187 pp / $20 Reviewed by Lisa McCormack / August 2024     When a renowned poet turns his...

Katie Farris Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Alice James Book / 2023 / 100 pp / $18.95 Reviewed by Laura Candler / June 2024 Film...

Jonathan Buckley Tell New Directions / March 2024 / 160 pp / $16.95 Reviewed by Laura Johnsrude / June 2024 In Jonathan Buckley’s twelfth...

Peter W. Fong ROWING TO BAIKAL: Sixty Days on Mongolia’s Selenge River Latah Books / December 2023 / 330 pp / $19.95 Reviewed by Greg...

Katerina Stoykova Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House University Press of Kentucky / January 2024 / 100 pp / $19.95 Reviewed by Melanie...

Paisley Rekdal West: A Translation Copper Canyon Press / 2023 / 178 pp/ $22.00 Reviewed by Lynnell Edwards / April 2024 Commissioned in...

Holly Mitchell Mare’s Nest Sarabande / May 2023 / 84 pp / $16.95 Reviewed by Rachel Thomas / February 2024 Holly Mitchell is a New...

John Cotter Losing Music: A Memoir Milkweed Editions / April 2023 / 296 pp / $26 Reviewed by Judy Harju Galliher / December 2023 In his...

Camille T. Dungy Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden Simon & Schuster / May 2023 / 336 pp / $28.99 Reviewed by Melanie...

by Kathleen Driskell Tiffany Golden, an MFA graduate in Writing for Children and Young Adults at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of...

by Portia Pennington Dan O’Brien is that exceptional breed of accomplished artist who never stops asking the hard questions. His...

Francesca Bell What Small Sound Red Hen Press / 2023 / 104 pp. / $22.00 Reviewed by Katie Massa Kennedy / October 2023 How can we exist...