Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
Ekphrasis Hybrid: A Review of Harriet Levin’s “My Oceanography”
Gravity and Waggery: A Review of Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”
Sacred Service: A Review of “Without Protection” & a Conversation with Gala Mukomolova
Performing Friendship: A Review of “Honey I Killed the Cats”
“Thermal Gestures:” A Review of W.S. Graham, NYRB Poets Series
War Has a Life of its Own: A Review of Nouri Al-Jarrah’s A Boat to Lesbos
Into the Radical Poetic Future: A Review of Roberto Tejada’s Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness
“An Anatomy of Loneliness:” A Review of Emmanuel Bove’s My Friends
Documents and Trees: A Review of C. D. Wright’s Casting Deep Shade: An Amble Inscribed to Beech Trees & Co.
The Besieged Kingdom: A Review of Inez Tan’s This is Where I Won’t Be Alone
“A Wild and Scathing Happiness”: Philippe Petit’s On the High Wire
We Are Stories: A Review of Lindsey Drager’s The Archive of Alternate Endings
Behind the Forbidden Door: A Review of Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread
“Engraft You New:” A Review of Kristen Case’s Principles of Economics
Arousing Hell: A Review of Jessica Francis Kane’s Bending Heaven
“A Field of Flowers Called Paintbrushes:” A Review of Jericho Brown’s The Tradition
Squirting Sriracha onto Everything: A Review of Michael Earl Craig’s “Woods and Clouds Interchangeable”
Preservation and Perseverance: A Review of Emily Jungmin Yoon’s A Cruelty Special to Our Species
Knowing Silence Moves us to Speak: Review of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic
Barrio Noir Knocks Twice: A Review of Gabino Iglesias’s Coyote Songs
