Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
Criminal Saints: A Review of Mike Soto’s A Grave is a Given Supper
What does Eternity Look Like: A Review of Barot’s The Galleons
Attempts at Understanding: A Review of The Inner Coast: Essays by Donovan Hohn
More than a Fish Story: A Review of Great Lakes Sea Lamprey: The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader, by Cory Brant.
Transformative Language: A Review of Lean Against this Late Hour by Garous Abdolmalekianby
The Consolation of Making Poems: A Review of A Wake With Nine Shades by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
A Friend for the End of the World: A Review of Weather by Jenny Offill
The Tyrant in His Laboratory: A Review of The Memory Police
In Exile: A Review of The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri
The War as Urban / Wilderness: A Review of The War Makes Everyone Lonely by Graham Barnhart
A New Anti-Heroine of Transgender Literature Emerges, Or, Why Everyone Should Read Kai Cheng Thom’s “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir”
Looming Both Large and Invisible: Women of Color in Mary Gaitskill’s This is Pleasure
Documenting the Bottom: A Review of Malcom Tariq’s “Heed the Hollow”
Speaking Suddenly In German: A Review of Dr. Lisa Gruenberg’s “My City of Dreams”
“If I Told Her How Often I Thought of Prison”: A Review of “Felon” by Reginald Dwayne Betts
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
