Kathleen Boland, Scavengers (Viking), 304 pp. Hardback, $29.00. Most of Kathleen Boland’s new novel, Scavengers, takes place in the fictional town of Mercy in Southern Utah. Boland, who has spent a…

Aja Couchois Duncan, The Intimacy Trials (University of Chicago Press), 96 pp. Paperback, $18.00. The promotional text for Aja Couchois Duncan’s new work, The Intimacy Trials, indicates that it is …

Tayari Jones, Kin (Knopf), 368 pp. Hardback, $32.00. In the foreword to her 1973 novel Sula, Toni Morrison discusses how Black authors are often beset by “the ‘problem’ of being a ‘Negro’ writer.” …

Gabriel Tallent, Crux (Riverhead), 416 pp. Hardback, $30.00. Rock climbing is currently having a moment. It became an Olympic event in 2020, and high-profile climbers like Las Vegas resident Alex H…

Issue #13 April 2026 Fiction: Gabriel Tallent, Crux (Riverhead) Fiction: Tayari Jones, Kin (Knopf) Poetry: Aja Couchois Duncan, The Intimacy Trials (University of Chicago Press) Fiction: Kathleen B…

One Hundred Years of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos Lorelei Lee would have loved Las Vegas. The heroine-narrator of Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, now enjoying its hundredth annive…

Sydney Martinez, Finding Nevada Wild: The Terrain, Culture, and People of the Most Mysterious State in the West (Schiffer Publishing), 320 pp. Hardback, $34.99. As Sydney Martinez observes in the f…

Matthew Davis, A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore (St. Martin’s), 336 pp. Hardback, $30.00. Mount Rushmore had six different dedication ceremonies—in 1925, 1927, 19…

Matthew Davis, A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore (St. Martin’s), 336 pp. Hardback, $30.00. Mount Rushmore had six different dedication ceremonies—in 1925, 1927, 19…

Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl (Republic Records) Taylor Swift is in her showgirl era. Her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl (TLOAS), marks Swift’s return to pop music and a reunifica…

E. Y. Zhao, Underspin (Astra House), 304 pp. Hardback, $27.00. It’s been a big year for table tennis. Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet as a fictionalized version of real-life…

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Robin Waterfield (Basic Books), 752 pp. Hardback, $40.00. It is hard to imagine a time in American history when Thucydides did not se…

Ada Limón, Startlement: New and Selected Poems (Milkweed), 232 pp. Hardback, $28.00. Ada Limón’s lines grab you by the lapels. In “First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You,” a poem from her fi…

P Moss, Screwing Sinatra (IDW Publishing), 192 pp. Paperback, $15.99. P Moss wastes no time throwing readers into the Rat Pack’s world of glamor, sleaze, and political ambition. His new novel, Scre…

One Hundred Years of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos Lorelei Lee would have loved Las Vegas. The heroine-narrator of Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, now enjoying its hundredth annive…

Matthew Davis, A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore (St. Martin’s), 336 pp. Hardback, $30.00. Mount Rushmore had six different dedication ceremonies—in 1925, 1927, 19…

Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl (Republic Records) Taylor Swift is in her showgirl era. Her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl (TLOAS), marks Swift’s return to pop music and a reunifica…

E. Y. Zhao, Underspin (Astra House), 304 pp. Hardback, $27.00. It’s been a big year for table tennis. Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet as a fictionalized version of real-life…

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Robin Waterfield (Basic Books), 752 pp. Hardback, $40.00. It is hard to imagine a time in American history when Thucydides did not se…

Ada Limón, Startlement: New and Selected Poems (Milkweed), 232 pp. Hardback, $28.00. Ada Limón’s lines grab you by the lapels. In “First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You,” a poem from her fi…

P Moss, Screwing Sinatra (IDW Publishing), 192 pp. Paperback, $15.99. P Moss wastes no time throwing readers into the Rat Pack’s world of glamor, sleaze, and political ambition. His new novel, Scre…

Issue #12 December 2025 Fiction: P Moss, Screwing Sinatra (IDW Publishing) Poetry: Ada Limόn, Startlement: New and Selected Poems (Milkweed) History: Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian Wa…

Seventy-Five Years of The Liberal Imagination, by Lionel Trilling Of all the great midcentury literary critics, Lionel Trilling endures as the most compelling for the approaching middle of the twen…

Gabriel Urza, The Silver State (Algonquin), 320 pp. Hardback, $29.00. Seven months into his job as a Washoe County Public Defender, young attorney Santi Elcano finds himself holding a toy basketbal…

Jeff Weiss, Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly (MCD), 400 pp. Paperback, $19.00. The word “allegedly” is doing a lot of work in the subtitle of Jeff Weiss’s new book, Waiting for B…

Alison Bechdel, Spent: A Comic Novel (Mariner Books), 272 pp. Hardback, $32.00. In a moment when literature often struggles to articulate personal responsibility within collective crisis, Alison Be…

Aisling Rawle, The Compound (Random House, June 24), 304 pp. Hardback, $29.00. As Lily, the narrator-protagonist of The Compound, and her new housemates get to know each other on the nation’s hotte…

Heather Christle, Paper Crown (Wesleyan University Press), 80 pp. Paperback, $16.95. Heather Christle’s “Perfect Song” is an absolute banger. First published in Narrative in 2019, and now included,…

Jessica Francis Kane, Fonseca (Penguin), 272 pp. Hardback, $28.00. In 1952, Penelope Fitzgerald left her husband at home in London, dropped her two-year-old daughter, Tina, off at her in-laws’, and…

David Baron, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (Liveright), 336 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. In the wake of his award-winning American Eclipse, Davi…

The magazine’s first pop-music critic was never afraid to be overtaken by unexpected delight, even if it came at the expense of some preëxisting skepticism.

Jon Wynn, The Set Up (Belt Publishing), 320 pp. Paperback, $20.00. In multiple interviews he gave in the later years of his life (from one with Dick Cavett in 1973 to one with Larry King in 1994), …

Gabriel Urza, The Silver State (Algonquin), 320 pp. Hardback, $29.00. Seven months into his job as a Washoe County Public Defender, young attorney Santi Elcano finds himself holding a toy basketbal…

Jeff Weiss, Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly (MCD), 400 pp. Paperback, $19.00. The word “allegedly” is doing a lot of work in the subtitle of Jeff Weiss’s new book, Waiting for B…

Alison Bechdel, Spent: A Comic Novel (Mariner Books), 272 pp. Hardback, $32.00. In a moment when literature often struggles to articulate personal responsibility within collective crisis, Alison Be…

Aisling Rawle, The Compound (Random House, June 24), 304 pp. Hardback, $29.00. As Lily, the narrator-protagonist of The Compound, and her new housemates get to know each other on the nation’s hotte…

Heather Christle, Paper Crown (Wesleyan University Press), 80 pp. Paperback, $16.95. Heather Christle’s “Perfect Song” is an absolute banger. First published in Narrative in 2019, and now included,…

Jessica Francis Kane, Fonseca (Penguin), 272 pp. Hardback, $28.00. In 1952, Penelope Fitzgerald left her husband at home in London, dropped her two-year-old daughter, Tina, off at her in-laws’, and…

David Baron, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (Liveright), 336 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. In the wake of his award-winning American Eclipse, Davi…

Jon Wynn, The Set Up (Belt Publishing), 320 pp. Paperback, $20.00. In multiple interviews he gave in the later years of his life (from one with Dick Cavett in 1973 to one with Larry King in 1994), …

Issue #11 August 2025 Fiction: Jon Wynn, The Set Up (Belt Publishing) History: David Baron, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (Liveright) Fict…

One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald If, in the final pages of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby had not met his tragic end but instead lived on, paddling against the current, t…

Sunni Brown Wilkinson, Rodeo (Autumn House), 88 pp. Paperback, $17.95. The title poem of Rodeo, Utah poet and Weber State University professor Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s newest book, is also the stron…

Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel (Pantheon), 336 pp. Hardback, $29.00. Las Vegas is a city where the future touches the present, where infrastructures take on speculative technologies in order to cast…

Kyle Paoletta, American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (Pantheon), 352 pp. Hardback, $30.00. Of the writers who have called the Southwestern United States home—Cormac McCa…

Madeleine Watts, Elegy, Southwest (Simon & Schuster), 288 pp. Hardback, $27.99. In the middle of Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts’s new novel, Eloise, the 29-year-old narrator, and her husband…

José Rivera, References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, directed by Gigi Guizado, A Public Fit Theatre Company, April 4 to April 22, 2025. The heat is on for the Las Vegas theatre scene. A January Ne…

Ariana Reines, The Rose (Graywolf), 96 pp. Paperback, $17.00. In Ariana Reines’s absolutely stunning poem “Eye of Death,” dedicated to Vegas writer Amanda Fortini, the poet and Amanda walk through …

Ethan Rutherford, North Sun; or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther (Deep Vellum), 396 pp. Paperback, $17.95. Moby-Dick was published in 1851 at the very pinnacle of the American whaling industry. …