Tag: Tin House Books

  • THE YEAR OF THE HORSES, a memoir by Courtney Maum, reviewed by Shannon Wolf

    THE YEAR OF THE HORSES, a memoir by Courtney Maum, reviewed by Shannon Wolf

    For Courtney Maum, The Year of the Horses followed a period of intense internal struggle. A crisis of identity as her daughter turned two brought on a bout of depression and insomnia so significant, it caused her life—and marriage—to stall. She found herself at a crossroads and needed to take the right path—and being a…

  • Charting the Depths of Absurdity: On Reading Annie Hartnett’s RABBIT CAKE

    Charting the Depths of Absurdity: On Reading Annie Hartnett’s RABBIT CAKE

    The very nature of death is absurd. The notion that a person can cease to exist, here in one moment and gone in the next, creates a strong sense of dissonance that, especially in those first minutes of grieving, makes the world feel surreal. Directly after my mom died, I couldn’t find my way out…

  • Review: Jacob Singer on Michael Helm’s Novel After James

    Review: Jacob Singer on Michael Helm’s Novel After James

    “The story seemed to confirm the existence of a thing not yet named, like an invisible planet postulated through math, the evidence of bending light, gravitational forces.” The pleasure of Michael Helm’s After James stems from how theory works in modern science. Currently, scientists don’t have to see to believe. Einstein couldn’t test his theories…

  • Dryland, a novel by Sara Jaffe, reviewed by Genevieve Hudson

    Dryland, a novel by Sara Jaffe, reviewed by Genevieve Hudson

    Think back to your early teenage years. What do you remember? Perhaps specific moments come flooding back. Maybe it’s more of a general feeling tinged in dusky sepia. It is a time when we are figuring out how to define ourselves, when we are learning what we want to say no to and when we…

  • Portuguese, poetry by Brandon Shimoda, reviewed by Nathan Moore

    Portuguese, poetry by Brandon Shimoda, reviewed by Nathan Moore

    Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese is the result of a collaborative publishing venture between Octopus Books and Tin House Books. From this information alone, you’d be right to expect something that, at the very least, is interesting. Portuguese is not only interesting, it defines new expectations about poetry. Now I expect more from poetry. There’s the “Oh,…

  • Review: Beside the Sea, by Véronique Olmi (Translated by Adriana Hunter)

    Review: Beside the Sea, by Véronique Olmi (Translated by Adriana Hunter)

    When I fall in love with characters, I’ll finish the book and wish that they would stick around, and oftentimes, they do. Of course, there have been times I did not want a book to close because the ending provided did not fulfill my expectations. Beside the Sea brought to focus a third reason to…