by Site Owner | Jan 12, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
by Tom Sleigh Graywolf Press, $15.00, 96 pages If poetry mirrors the human condition, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Tom Sleigh shows the vast differences that make us who we are. The grouping of selections in Army Cats proves that poetry is anything but ordinary....
by Site Owner | Jan 11, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
by Camille Noe Pagan Dutton, $25.95, 292 pages Can friendship survive any obstacle? Camille Noe Pagan answers this in her debut novel The Art of Forgetting. It’s a classic power struggle. Marissa and Julia have been friends since high school in Michigan, but the...
by Site Owner | Jan 11, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
by Dorianne Laux W.W. Norton & Co, $24.95, 92 pages Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection of poetry, The Book of Men: Poems, peels back the layers of complicated life and seeks to explain what makes each of us human. The 36-poem compilation reads like a continuous...
by Site Owner | Dec 20, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Dan DeWeese, Harper Perennial, 336 pages “”That’s why your belief that this is all a concidence doesn’t really hold. You’ve been a bank manager in this city for the last twenty-five years, and he’s been robbing banks around here...
by Site Owner | Oct 2, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Elizabeth Buchan, Viking, $26.95, 372 pages “Seizing a breathing space, Annie sat down at the kitchen table to catch up with the accounts, which now featured prominently in her routines. However, despite the rigor and expertise she had at her fingertips for...