FURIES: THUS SPOKE, O’Brian Gunn’s first novel in a series, reviewed by Ann Davis-Rowe

Furies: Thus Spoke, by O’Brian Gunn. Denver, Colorado: Spaceboy Books, March 2019. 370 pages. $14.95, paper. 2019 brought no shortage…

DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN, Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner Kate Wisel’s debut story collection, reviewed by Noreen Hernandez

Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, by Kate Wisel. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, October 2019. 192 pages. $23.00,…

Essays One, by Lydia Davis. New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2019. 528 pages. $30.00, hardcover. Lydia…

Look Look Look, by Callista Buchen. Black Lawrence Press, October 2019. 60 pages. $16.95, paper. Look at the mother—the way…

Because What Else Could I Do, by Martha Collins. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, October 2019. 64 pages. $17.00,…

Johanna Robinson’s flash novella, Homing, is a revelation not only in its form—flash chapters pinpointing specific moments in time in fewer…

The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and…

Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen, by Gint Aras. Mystic, Connecticut: Homebound Publications, October 2019. 94 pages. $12.95, paper.…

We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections every…

CW: sexual assault

Heed the Hollow, by Malcolm Tariq. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, November 2019. 128 pages. $16.00, paper. There is something about…

In her invalid’s bunk on the steamer Virginia, the Nurse cannot stop throwing up. When the boat is in…