Reviews

Emotions Take Flight in “Smile: The Story of a Face”
Fulfilling Expectations in “Small Pleasures”
Dualities of Life and Fiction in Jackson Bliss’ “Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments”
The Limits of Language in “Siege of Comedians”
Objects in the Mirror are Truer Than They Appear: Jen Fawkes’ “Tales The Devil Told Me”
The Blurry Truth at the Heart of “A Time Outside this Time”
Women, Freedom, and Diwan in “Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller”
Madness and Mundanity in “The Swank Hotel”
Depression and Desertion in “I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness”
A Sweeping Kaleidoscope of Poetry in Tracy K. Smith’s “Such Color”