by Good River Review staff The Kentucky Book Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a weeklong festival, November 1-6,...

Jayne Moore Waldrop Drowned Town University Press of Kentucky / 2021 / 254 pp / 24.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth Hall Magill Poet Jayne Moore...

Berenguer, Amanda/Materia Prima: Selected Poems of Amanda Berenguer/Eds. Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson/Ugly Duckling Presse/2019/$22...

reviewed by Kate Bustillos Jasmine Warga Other Words for Home Balzer + Bray/2019/332 pp/16.99 hardback I read Jasmine Warga’s Other Words...

Yuka Igarashi, Editor Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America DAU Prize Catapult / 2020 / 240 pp/ 16.95 Reviewed by R. L. Mullins...

Daddy, reviewed by Brent Coughenour

How Much of These Hills is Gold, reviewed by Elizabeth Hall Magill

Reviewed by JoAnne E. Lehman

Makalani Bandele’s first full-length collection is a stunning jazz fantasia that thrums with Bandele’s deep knowledge of music and the post-

reviewed by Dianne Aprile Sigrid Nunez’s latest novel, What are You Going Through, embodies the fourth criterion in Italo Calvino’s list

Near the end of her memoir, Natasha Trethewey remarks, “To survive trauma, one must be able to tell a story about it.”

I find myself meditating on the phrase “don’t let your disability define you” since reading Jillian Weise’s poetry collection Cyborg Detecti

An optimist, as sure-footed in his personal path as in his travel writing. A man who resides on two continents, spending half . . .

At less than 100 pages, this slim volume of essays describes an arc from March 29, 2020, two weeks into the national lockdown . . .

Set on the remote Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east, this debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, revolves around . . .

At his inauguration President Biden said, “Many centuries ago, Saint Augustine, a saint of my church, wrote that a people was . . .

Lydia Millet talks with Katy Yocom about her newest book, A Children's Bible.

In September and October 2020, Kevin and I spoke about his career as a screenwriter, filmmaker, activist, and professor.