5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week
Charles Simic on Tracy K. Smith, Ron Charles on David Duchovny, and more.
It was a stellar week for poetry reviews, with both Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young receiving rave write-ups from the New York Times for their new much-anticipated new collections. Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic praised US Poet Laureate Smith’s “exquisite sense of timing and her feel for the kind of language appropriate to the poem” in his review of Wade in the Water, while The House of Broken Angels author Luis Alberto Urrea wrote of Young’s Brown: “[the] book releases a universal shout—political in the best, most visceral way, critical, angry, squinting hard at this culture—while remaining at the same time deeply and lovingly personal.” Over at Entertainment Weekly, David Canfield calls New York Times journalist Amy Choznick‘s hybrid work of memoir and political reportage Chasing Hillary “a fascinating portrait of two brilliant, wounded women unknowingly headed for a collision course.” Plus, Alex Brown‘s Tor review of an innovative new sci-fi thriller that focuses on gender and disability, and The Washington Post’s Ron Charles finds himself pleasantly surprised by David Duchovny‘s blarney-filled new novel.
