RUNESTONE book reviews by student editors
Book Reviews by v. 10 Runestone student editors:
All These Sunken Souls:
A Black Horror Anthology
Circe Moskowitz (editor)
Chicago Review Press
The Marigold
by Andrew F. Sullivan
ECW Press
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
by Eric Cervini
Macmillan
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
by Mark Lawrence
Penguin Random House
A Northern Spring
by Matt Mauch
Trio House Press
Book Reviews by v. 9 Runestone student editors:
Milkweed Smithereens
by Bernadette Mayer
New Directions Publishing
Small Moods
by Shane Kowalski
Future Tense Books
Never Have I Ever
by Isabel Yap
Small Beer Press
Glossolalia: Or, don’t scream it on the mountain
by E. Rahke
Wolf Publishing
Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide
by Juliet Patterson
Milkweed Editions
Book Reviews by v. 8 Runestone student editors:
Black Star
by Eric Anthony Glover
Ill. by Arielle Jovellanos
Harry M. Abrams
Reviewed by Cal MacFarland
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
Penguin Random House
Reviewed by Emma Harrington
Self-Portrait with Cephalopod
by Kathryn Smith
Milkweeds Editions
Reviewed by Larissa Larson
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Penguin Random House
Reviewed by Angel Kidd
Some People Let You Down
by Mike Alberti
University of North Texas Press
Reviewed by Olivia Rose Lee
Book Reviews by v. 7 Runestone student editors:
Pizza Girl
by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Doubleday
(fiction)
The Malevolent Volume
by Justin Phillip Reed
Coffee House Press
(poetry)
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Penguin Random House
(CNF)
This is Where
by Louise Waakaa’igan
Willow Publishing
(poetry)
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
by Kawai Strong Washburn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(fiction)
Book Reviews by v. 6 Runestone student editors:
Arkansas
John Brandon
McSweeney’s
Novel
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Hogarth Press
Novel
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
Random House
Novel
Evidence of V:
A Novel In Fragments, Facts, and Fictions
Sheila O’Connor
Rose Metal Press
The Collected Schizophrenias
Esmé Weijun Wang
Graywolf Press
Essays
Book Reviews by v. 5 Runestone student editors:
Reviews by Fall 2017 Runestone student editors (volume four).
Fen
Daisy Johnson
Graywolf Press
Fiction: Short Story Collection
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of this will Matter
Scaachi Koul
Picador, 2017
Essays
Read review by Liv Kressler
Broken River
J. Robert Lennon
Graywolf Press
Fiction
Don’t Call Us Dead
Danez Smith
Graywolf Press, 2017
Poetry
Reviews by Fall 2016 Runestone student editors (volume three).
Houses of the Holy
Caitlin Skaalrud
Uncivilized Books
(Graphic Novel)
Into the Sun
Deni Ells Béchard
Milkweed Editions
(Novel)
May Day
Gretchen Marquette
Graywolf Press
(Poetry)
Ocular Proof
Martha Ronk
Omnidawn Publishing
(Poetry)
Reviews by 2016 Runestone student editors (volume two).
Apparition Island
Jenifer LeClair
Conquill Press
(Fiction)
Bone Gap
Laura Ruby
Balzer + Bray
(Fiction)
Bright Dead Things
Ada Limón
Milkweed Editions
(Poetry)
Double Jinx
Nancy Reddy
Milkweed Editions
(Poetry)
Evil Men
James Dawes
Harvard University Press
(Creative Nonfiction)
In Winter’s Kitchen
Beth Dooley
Milkweed Editions
(Creative Nonfiction)
The Red Parts
Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press
(Creative Nonfiction)
West of Sunset
Stewart O’Nan
Penguin Books
(Fiction)
Window Left Open
Jennifer Grotz
Graywolf Press
(Poetry)
Reviews by 2015 Runestone student editors (volume one).
Dandarians: Poems
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Milkweed Editions 2014
September, 2014
Dear Committee Members: A Novel
Julie Schumacher
Knopf Doubleday
August, 2014
Duplex: A Novel
Kathryn Davis
Graywolf
September, 2013
Further Joy
by John Brandon
McSweeney’s
June, 2014
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by Eula Biss
Graywolf Press
September, 2014
Prelude to Bruise
by Saeed Jones
Coffee House Press
September, 2014
Soft: A Memoir
by Sherrie Fernandez-Williams
North Star Press
September, 2014