Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
Triptych in Color: On Caroline Johnson’s “The Caregiver”
Rage In America Is Not New: On Adam Smyer’s “Knucklehead”
The Epistolary Ambivalence: On Balance in Dustin Pearson’s “Millennial Roost”
Until It Is One Round Tail: On Max Ritvo’s “The Final Voicemails”
An Ink Droplet in a Glass of Water: On “The Natashas” by Yelena Moskovich
Flakes of Wrath: On Howard Markel’s “The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek”
Rupture, Revelation, and Reading-as-Being: On Selah Saterstrom’s “Ideal Suggestions”
A Kosmos of Buffalo: A Review of Carl Dennis’s “Night School”
To See More Clearly: A Review of Jacques Rancourt’s “In the Time of PrEP”
Unsuspecting Bodies: A Review of Tommy Orange’s “There There”
Can Music Save Us? A Review of Michael Zadoorian’s “Beautiful Music”
What Jesse Ball’s “Census” Is and Is Not
Pas de Deux: Amy Fusselman’s “Idiophone”
“Neoliberal Austerity and Left Melancholy,” by Vassilis Lambropoulos
An Act of Love from the Dream to Hamilton: Diana Hamilton’s “The Awful Truth”
Cracking the Lens: A Review of Jenny Xie’s “Eye Level”
“We made room in our day for every star”: Dunya Mikhail’s “The Beekeeper”
Notes toward Jane Gregory’s “Yeah No”
A Review of Laura Van Den Berg’s “The Third Hotel”
Horizontal Knowledge: Tom Sleigh’s “The Land Between Two Rivers”
