Domesticated Wild Things by Xhenet Aliu Reviewed in Booklist “Aliu’s debut collection, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, looks at a variety of characters living on the outskirts as they wrestle with their circumstances or impulses.” -Leah … Continue reading Review roundup

Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament by Evelyn I. Funda in Booklist “While patiently recounting the deep immigrant roots that permeate her personal history, Funda has crafted an intensely American story. She channels Willa Cather when writing of her mother, who … Continue reading Review roundup

Chiricahua and Janos by Lance R. Blyth in eScholarship “Chiricahua and Janos supplies the kind of closely presented evidence that is necessary to critique, develop, revise, emend, and amend theoretical accounts of frontier change and social evolution.” -Thomas D. Hall … Continue reading Review roundup

Drama and Pride in the Gateway City by John Harry Stahl and Bill Nowlin in Redbird Rants “Without the Philadelphia Phillies‘ epic collapse and the Cardinals epic comeback to win nearly a dozen games, there would have likely been a … Continue reading Review roundup

  Drama and Pride in the Gateway City by Bill Nowlin and in C70 at the Bat “However you use this book, the important thing is this: it belongs in a place of honor on your shelf of Cardinal literature.” … Continue reading Review roundup

A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War by Mary Butler Renville in H-Net “A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity is an ambitious, multifaceted volume that plunges us deep into the complexities of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War, and, … Continue reading Review roundup

Selling the Congo by Matthew G. Stanard in H-France Review “The breadth of topics covered in this book is wide–each of them could fill a separate monograph. It is to Stanard’s credit that he is able to pull them together. … Continue reading Review roundup

Island of Bones by Joy Castro in the Portland Book Review “Through it all, Castro continues to struggle with questions of identity and membership: do I really belong, and where, and to whom? Who am I, really? Her search for the … Continue reading Review roundup

Body Geographic by Barrie Jean Borich in The Rumpus “In all, Body Geographic navigates fluidly between recovery narrative, travelogue, family legend (in both the literary and cartographic senses of the word), and coming-of-(middle)age story, and in so doing posits a new telling … Continue reading Review roundup

Appetite for Books reviewer Claudia Kousoulas calls Jason Anthony’s Hoosh “…a departure from the adventurous tales of expeditioners, but a fascinating departure.” She mentions, “For those of us challenged by a weekly grocery list, Anthony’s description of planning Antarctic meals past and present is … Continue reading A Roundup of Reviews