All Will Be Well: a Memoir
by John McGahern

"All Will Be Well is ultimately a memoir that sheds more light on the fiction than the man, giving readers a sense of confirmation that, indeed, these awful things McGahern always wrote about were true-to-life. None of this makes All Will Be Well a failure as a memoir, especially for a reader new to McGahern....The quality of McGahern's writing and the vividness of its scenes lift his book from the ordinary." Floyd Skloot, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)
 
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When All Is Said and Done
by Robert Hill

"Striking and spirited in its presentation, this short, rapid-fire novel reads like a hymn to the travails of love and work, marriage and babies, illness and sex, sexism and the '60s, Revlon and Bergdorf's. Its framework is a Jewish couple in an exclusive New York suburb, but its reach is clearly more universal....Exquisitely perceptive and a little bit catty, Hill's novel goes down in one smooth, satisfying gulp." Wade Edwards, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)
 
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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew
by Samuel Fromartz

"In this story, one gains a fuller appreciation of the ability of the American consumer to exercise power through its purchases of commodities, but even more, the power of the 'government-food industry complex' to deflect serious challenges to the dominant farming, distribution, processing, and marketing of Food Inc. (to use Fromartz's term), which has lowered the production cost of 'organic' foods while still charging a premium for them, threatened the economic viability of small organic operators, and hijacking the word "organic' to their corporate goals." Richard C. Collins, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)
 
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Quipu
by Arthur Sze

"In Quipu, Arthur Sze's eighth collection of poetry, the focus on various disciplines?nature, philosophy, history, science, anthropology?never seems gimmicky or trite. The focus never forces a metaphor or draws false attention to a topic in order to make new some old poetic trick. Sze's focus on the world outside of poetry seems purposeful, due to a genuine interest in and knowledge of the topic." Lilah Hegnauer, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)
 
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Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved
by Gregory Orr

"Gregory Orr's new book is dazzling and timeless. Sure, the trappings of modern life appear at the edges of these poems, but their focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendent ? not God, but the beloved ? that we seem to slip into a less cluttered time....The effect is blinding and impressionistic, but the careful study of what is barely seen reveals more than any total picture ever could." Ted Genoways, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)
 
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Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison
by Arnold Weinstein

"Weinstein is a passionate and lucid teacher, one of the most graceful expositors of literature in the nation. In this literary appreciation-cum-memoir, he puts his gifts to work for an unpopular cause: the continuing relevance of the great books that 'read us,' as he claims — that recover the reader's life through their experimental investigations into time, relationship, gender, and history." Gabriel Hankins, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)
 
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A Sun Within a Sun: the Power and Elegance of Poetry
by Claire Chi-ah Lyu

"If Baudelaire had the popular reach of Dr. Phil, this book would be an instant bestseller, so inspirational is its message, so articulate its conclusions. In evocative prose and far-reaching scholarship, Lyu attempts to distill the astounding, impulsive power of poetry ? its spiritual value, its serious frivolity ? and succeeds beautifully. Poetry, Lyu writes in her powerful prologue, "insists that we abandon and awaken from the deceptive comforts of habit and addiction. Risk is the willingness to open up the limited and limiting circle of the familiar and the easy ?" Wade Edwards, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)
 
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