The Late Work of Sam Shepard

by Shannon Blake Skelton

reviewed by Erik Hage

A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

by Deborah Campbell

reviewed by Ophelia John

On Empson

by Michael Wood

reviewed by Yun Ni

The Book of Emma Reyes

by Emma Reyes, translated by Daniel Alarcón

reviewed by Cecilia Weddell

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

by Kay Redfield Jamison

reviewed by Heather Clark

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

by Hisham Matar

reviewed by Carmen Bugan

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

by Philip Eade

reviewed by Laura Albritton

Slight Exaggeration

by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

reviewed by Leonard Kress

Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love

by Brad Gooch

reviewed by Erik Hage

Death of Art

by Chris Campanioni

reviewed by Gabriel García Ochoa

South and West: From a Notebook

by Joan Didion

reviewed by William Doreski

You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

by Rachel Corbett

reviewed by Erik Hage

The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers

by Terry McDonell

reviewed by Erik Hage

The Abundance

by Annie Dillard

reviewed by Eric Stinton

In Other Words

by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein

reviewed by Yen Pham

Poor Your Soul

by Mira Ptacin

reviewed by Virginia Marshall

The Road Not Taken

by David Orr

reviewed by Christopher Spaide

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

by Sandra Cisneros

reviewed by Laura Albritton

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

by Tracy Daugherty

reviewed by Maia Silber

Coming Ashore

by Catherine Gildiner

reviewed by Rachel Poser