May 11, 2018
Some Notes on Literary Power and Shane McCrae’s The Language of My Captor
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2017. 108 pages. $24.95. Shane McCrae’s latest book of poems opens in the voice of a man, presumably from somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, who has […]
May 4, 2018
On Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
New York, NY: Penguin, 2017. 352 pages. $27.00. With her second novel Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng is garnering the kind of praise that greeted her highly awarded and New […]
April 27, 2018
On Marilynne Robinson’s What Are We Doing Here?
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018. 315 pages. $27.00. My mother went to Catholic school, and my father avoided the nurse’s office in his public school because he […]
April 23, 2018
April 2018
Micro-Reviews
Yan Lianke. The Years, Months, Days. Trans. Carlos Rojas. Black Cat, 2017. 192 pages. $16.00. Misfortune and hardship are the constant in Yan Lianke’s two novellas, which have the strange, […]
April 23, 2018
April 2018 Micro-Reviews
Yan Lianke. The Years, Months, Days. Trans. Carlos Rojas. Black Cat, 2017. 192 pages. $16.00. Misfortune and hardship are the constant in Yan Lianke’s two novellas, which have the strange, […]
April 20, 2018
On Andrew Sean Greer’s Less
New York, NY: Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown, 2017. 272 pages. $26.00. How can you avoid the pain of heartbreak? For Arthur Less, the protagonist of Andrew Sean Greer’s latest novel, […]
April 13, 2018
On Bye-Bye Land by Christian Barter
Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd., 2017. 112 pages. $16.00. Maybe one bright corner of the current political situation is that it’s opened up more space for socially engaged poems in […]
April 6, 2018
On The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown
New York, NY: Persea Books. March, 2017. 80 pages. $15.95. Increasingly, it seems to be the case that books of poetry have to present themselves as projects rather than simply […]
March 30, 2018
I’m So Free: On A Working Woman by Elvira Navarro
Translated by Christina MacSweeney. San Francisco, CA: Two Lines Press, 2017. 200 pages. $14.95. Elvira Navarro’s novel A Working Woman might be a tough sell for mainstream fiction readers acclimated […]
March 23, 2018
“We Didn’t Want to Be Good to Each Other”: On Philip Schaefer’s Bad Summon
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2017. 72 pages. $14.95. The biggest hurdle of a séance is forfeiting control of what we conjure. In his debut collection, Bad […]
March 19, 2018
March 2018
Micro-Reviews
This issue marks the beginning of a new feature of the Kenyon Review’s micro-reviews. Twice a year, in March and in September, we’ll be completely dedicated to recent collections of […]
March 19, 2018
March 2018 Micro-Reviews
This issue marks the beginning of a new feature of the Kenyon Review’s micro-reviews. Twice a year, in March and in September, we’ll be completely dedicated to recent collections of […]