Annie Finch recommends Might Could (Waywiser Books, 2026), poems by Anna Lena Phillips Bell. “These poems are in touch with poetry’s specific magical ways … they know how to use structure to move below, beyond, and through words.” Mary Gordon recommends The Hill: A Novel by Harriet Clark (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026). DeWitt Henry…
Annie Finch recommends Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy by Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Peter Lang, 2022). “This jaw-droppingly inspiring tome is THE book on matriarchy, by the mother of modern matriarchal studies.” Annie Finch recommends Collected Poems by Lenore Kandel (North Atlantic Books, 2012). “A lost gem of women’s poetry from the Beat era, Kandel’s work is deliciously erotic, and…
Robert Boswell recommends The Plan of Chicago by Barry Pearce (Cornerstone Press, November 2025). “Like James Joyce’s Dubliners (Grant Richards, 1914), this collection of stories accumulates a strange, cohesive power, and the city itself becomes a character—an arbiter, a friend, an inspiration, a tough customer. The stories are beautifully crafted and carefully written, and while the book is utterly unsentimental,…
DeWitt Henry recommends The Drama Room by Elizabeth Searle (Pierian Springs Press, 2025). “In twelve stories that probe contemporary maladies and focus primarily on vulnerable teenagers, Searle is more compassionate than censorious, more Salingeresque than scathing. She explores points of view, voices, and streams of consciousness; is sparing with symbolism, deft in managing perspectives in time; and her…
Rosellen Brown recommends Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks (Viking, 2025). “In this heartbreaking tribute to her husband Tony Horwitz who died suddenly, far too young, the formidable journalist-turned-novelist Brooks teaches a lesson on grieving, which does not occur in those famous seven steps. She brings him alive only to share with us what it was like to lose him.” Tess Gallagher recommends Raven on the Moaners’ Bench, by…
Cornelius Eady recommends Simply, Patiently, Quietly, by Charlie Rauh (String Letter Publishing, 2025). “Charlie Rauh is a guitarist who uses the lines of poets (Dickinson, Wheatley) as a jumping-off point for making beautifully impressive instrumental pieces, and this book—which explains how he got there, along with links to the tracks—feels in the spirit of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift,…
Charles Baxter, Blood Test: a Comedy (Pantheon, 2024)
Martín Espada, Jailbreak of Sparrows, poems (Knopf, April 2025) Jay Neugeboren, After Camus, a novel (Madville Publishing, 2024) Jay Neugeboren, Whatever Happened to Frankie King, a graphic novel illustrated by Eli Neugeboren (Graphic Mundi, 2024)
Jay Neugeboren, After Camus, a novel (Madville Publishing, November 2024) Jay Neugeboren, Whatever Happened to Frankie King, a graphic novel illustrated by Eli Neugeboren (Graphic Mundi, November 2024)
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