Books to Review

Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Comics | Chapbooks + Mixed Genres

Last updated July 2, 2026

We are actively looking for people to write for Heavy Feather—and we cover books that aren’t on our list below—so reach out to Books Editor Jeff Chon if you’re interested in reviewing books, interviewing authors, or pitching another type of project. We only publish interviews and reviews online. We encourage 800 words per book review. Artist interviews, general criticism, and craft essays up to 4,000 words are welcome. Reviewers receive hard copies of the book if available.

If you’re a publicist, author, or publisher and want to tell us about your book, please also email Jeff. If you spam your catalog at us, it will be treated as such. We’d prefer to not cover Big Five titles … Once in a section, click its heading to return to the top menu.

Fiction

The Last Words of Jack Ruby / Joshua Corey / Tortoise Books / 320 pp.

The Vanishings / Kavi Yaga / Texas Review Press / 175 pp.

Upflow / Diego Gerard Morrison / Split/Lip Press

The Loneliness of Glass / Kathleen Furin / Cornerstone Press

Child Boss / Andrew Felsher / 128 Lit / 130 pp.

Lucy Miles’ Photogenic Mind / Aaron Tillman / Regal House Publishing / 278 pp.

Songs from the Blimp Ruins / Pat Foran / Silverbacked Punk / 215 pp.

Rough Beast / Adrian Van Young / Black Lawrence Press / 330 pp.

Newsreels / Hob Broun / Calamari Archive / 158 pp.

Aliens Attack! / Dave Housley / Mason Jar Press / 186 pp.

Family Night / Ani King / Mason Jar Press / 162 pp.

Stalinville / Oles Ulianenko / Harvard Ukranian Research Institute / 200 pp. / Translated by Olha Rudakevych

Tabitha, Get Up / Lee Upton / Sagging Meniscus Press / 310 pp.

An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies / Lance Olsen / Dzanc Books

Ask Me about the Money / Keith Pilapil Lesmeister / Cornerstone Press / 220 pp.

The Dinner Party / Cat Fitzpatrick / Seven Stories Press / 96 pp.

The Grief Shop / Alex DiFrancesco / Seven Stories Press / 144 pp.

Baker’s Dozen / Dasha Kelly / Jaded Ibis Press

Wounded Boarders / George Singleton / Dzanc Books / 236 pp.

Jen & Gary’s Infinite (Quantum) Entanglements / Nick Gregorio / Unsolicited Press / 258 pp.

The Surrogate / Lynn C. Miller / University of Wisconsin Press / 260 pp.

Dams / Irene Solà / Graywolf Press / 192 pp. / Translated by Mara Faye Lethem

Asmodeus / Rita Indiana / Graywolf Press / 208 pp. / Translated by Achy Obejas

Seagulls / Nina Chayka / Black Lawrence Press / 252 pp.

RAÑA / Caleb True / University of Tampa Press

When They Came Back / Terri Lewis / Miami University Press

Poetry

If I Cannot Fly / Amy Saul-Zerby / Serotonin Press

… AGAIN / Mark Nowak / Coffee House Press / 173 pp.

Double Serpent / Sam Max / Ugly Duckling Presse / 144 pp.

B-Dragon Suite / Stine An / Nightboat Books / 104 pp.

The River at the End of the River / Peter Markus / Dzanc Books / 120 pp.

Ugly Ground Swell Moss / Jacob Schepers / Carbonation Press / 105 pp.

Mother / Dorothea Lasky / Wave Books / 88 pp.

call the necromancer / Leia Penina Wilson / Action Books / 172 pp.

Two Poems / Jaime Saenz / Action Books / 90 pp. / Translated by Ted Dodson & Kit Schluter

Antuco / Carlos Soto Román & Carlos Cardani Parra / Cardboard House Press / 360 pp. / Translated by Judah Rubin

Bosk / Patrick Barron / Unsolicited Press / 88 pp.

raw & zero / imogen smith / Nightboat Books / 104 pp.

Perennial Counterpart / Yongyu Chen / Nightboat Books / 96 pp.

Nomad Science / John Madera / Spuyten Duyvil

The Daughter Industry / Soham Patel / Nightboat Books / 128 pp.

The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor / Kathryn Cowles / Fence Books / 116 pp.

Beautiful Snacks / Stephen Paul Miller / Marsh Hawk Press / 208 pp.

A Grain of Sand in Lambeth / Geoffrey Babbitt / University of Nevada Press / 114 pp.

say, said / Fred Dale / Driftwood Press / 90 pp.

Rock Arrangement / Yan An / Carnegie Mellon University Press / Translated by Chen Du & Xisheng Chen

Song of Gray / Asha Futterman / University Press of Colorado  / 70 pp.

A Violence / Paula Bohince / Princeton University Press / 88 pp.

Dispatch from Every Second Guess / Megan Gannon / Dzanc Books / 128 pp.

In the Good Years / Laura Cresté / Four Way Books / 128 pp.

E / Noa Micaela Fields / Nightboat Books / 120 pp.

Nonfiction

My Monstrous Family Cookbook / JI Daniels / Unsolicited Press

Freak Lip / Julia Cohen / Essay Press / 137 pp.

Satellite / Simmons Buntin / Terra Firma / 278 pp.

There’s a Monster in the Lake / Laura Fernández / Graywolf Press /104 pp. / Translated by Alexis Almeida

Gerry / Nicholas Rombes / Bloomsbury Academic / 104 pp.

Eating on a Mountain at the End of the World / Zackary Vernon / University of North Carolina Press / 160 pp.

Brother Epistles / Shanda McManus / Split/Lip Press

Seeing Joy / Alexandra Grabbe / Koehler Books / 240 pp.

Residual / Tisa Bryant / Nightboat Books / 272 pp.

Dandelion / Danielle Bainbridge / Jaded Ibis Press / 280 pp.

Such a Pretty Picture / Andrea Leeb / She Writes Press / 280 pp.

Wayfinding / Renee Gilmore / Trio House Press / 348 pp.

The Garden / Julie Carr / Essay Press & Pamenar Press

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless / Maria Pinto / University of North Carolina Press / 240 pp.

The Perils of Girlhood / Melissa Fraterrigo / University of Nebraska Press / 204 pp.

Little Deaths All in a Row / Elizabeth Earley / Jaded Ibis Press

Spine / John Patrick Higgins / Sagging Meniscus Press / 128 pp.

Guest Privileges / Gaar Adams / Dzanc Books / 302 pp.

Specimen / Sienna Liu / Split/Lip Press

Thank You for Staying with Me / Bailey Gaylin Moore / University of Nebraska Press / 226 pp.

Bad Forecast / Steffan Triplett / Essay Press

A Toast to St Martirià / Albert Serra / Coffee House Press / 144 pp. / Translated by Matthew Tree

My Mother in Havana / Rebe Huntman / Monkfish Book Publishing / 280 pp.

Unsavory Thoughts / Thomas Walton / Sagging Meniscus Press / 236 pp.

It All Felt Impossible / Tom McAllister / Rose Metal Press / 180 pp.

Imagine a Door / Laura Stanfill / Forest Avenue Press / 518 pp.

Comics

Heaven / Katie Skelly / Fantagraphics / 100 pp.

Quacky / Jim Woodring / Fantagraphics / 296 pp.

Peep Show / Joe Matt / Fantagraphics / 464 pp.

Heartbreak Soup / Gilbert Hernandez / Fantagraphics / 288 pp.

The Tumor in the Clay / Nick Francis / Driftwood Press / 232 pp.

Upwards Incursion / Padraig Campbell / Driftwood Press

The Ephemerata / Carol Tyler / Fantagraphics / 232 pp.

Sleepless Planet / Maureen Burdock / Graphic Mundi / 240 pp.

The Witch’s Egg / Donya Todd / Avery Hill Publishing / 180 pp.

The Corus Wave / Karenza Sparks / Avery Hill Publishing / 144 pp.

Acid Box / Sara Kenney, James Devlin, & Emma Vieceli / Avery Hill Publishing / 200 pp.

Silk Cotton / Colleen Douglas / Rosarium Publishing / 224 pp.

R.U.R. / Kateřina Čupová / Rosarium Publishing / 264 pp. / Translated by
Julie Nováková

Okchundang Candy / Jung-Soon Go / Levine Querido / 128 pp. / Translated by Aerin Park

Raised by Ghosts / Briana Loewinsohn / Fantagraphics / 224 pp.

The Idris File / Dix / Fantagraphics / 132 pp.

The Wrestler / John Kenn Mortensen / Fantagraphics / 80 pp.

Go Figure / Guy Colwell / Fantagraphics / 95 pp.

Arsène Schrauwen / Olivier Schrauwen / Fantagraphics / 256 pp.

The Murder Next Door / Hugh D’Andrade / Street Noise Books / 152 pp.

Second Shift / Kit Anderson / Avery Hill Publishing / 140 pp.

Brittle Joints / Maria Sweeney / Street Noise Books / 160 pp.

Adrift on a Painted Sea / Tim Bird / Avery Hill Publishing

The Scrapbook of Life and Death / J. Webster Sharp / Avery Hill Publishing

Barking / Lucy Sullivan / Avery Hill Publishing

Chapbooks + Mixed Genres

Survival Skills / Elizabeth Rosen / Sand & Gravel Press

Patternation / Shira Dentz / Antiphony Press

Mega-Galaxies / Elizabeth J. Coleman / Driftwood Press / 58 pp.

Freely Frayed / Don Mee Choi / Wave Books / 136 pp.

1411,1001 / Mike Kleine / 28 pp.

Everything Small Is Moving / Elizabeth Clark Wessel / PRESS 254 / 52 pp.

Inhale the Ghost / Nicholas Alti / PRESS 254 / 48 pp.

Crux / Jesi Bender / Sagging Meniscus Press / 134 pp.

Late in the Day / Lisa Low / Seven Kitchens Press / 27 pp.

The Woman in the Sound / Ellery Capshaw / Bottlecap Press / 32 pp.

Paper Money / Winshen Liu / Driftwood Press / 48 pp.

i[ↄ]onic+ log / Federico Federici / Calamari Archive / 154 pp.

CODON / Arreshy Young / Calamari Archive / 154 pp.

Autobiography of the [Undead] / Emilio Carrero / Calamari Archive / 152 pp.

Skewed ink [OoPs] / dd/Cal / Calamari Archive / 144 pp.

For disobeying / sasha hawkins / Calamari Archive / 172 pp.

For the Best / Nia Mahmud / Bottlecap Press / 24 pp.

My Mother’s Armoire / Rina Shamilov / Bottlecap Press / 28 pp.

Horsemouth and Aquariumhead / Elizabeth Horner Turner / Black Lawrence Press / 46 pp.

Coming Home / Angela Siew / CutBank Books

The Apostasy of Proxy Godbot / Daniel Y. Harris / BlazeVOX / 254 pp.

The Kármán Line / Daisy Atterbury / Rescue Press / 180 pp.

When the Ocean Comes to Me / Alex Gurtis / Bottlecap Press / 28 pp.

The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies / Maggie Cooper / Bull City Press / 49 pp.

Tonalamatl / by Steven Alvarez / Calamari Archive / 160 pp.

Calvin Klein / James Gianetti / ELJ Editions / 30 pp.

Fruitful / Stefanie Kirby / Driftwood Press / 52 pp.