Review: Greetings, Hero
Greetings, Hero by Aiden O’Reilly Published by Honest Publishing, November 2014 Reviewed by Cath Barton “I ran my fingers across the rough chisel cuts, trying to achieve a closer contact. The … Continue reading
SaltWater by Lane Ashfeldt: Review
SaltWater by Lane Ashfeldt Liberties Press, 2014 Reviewed by Cath Barton “The taste of tobacco filled his mouth and made it water. Jim spat, and he felt ready for the sea again. You … Continue reading
Rivka Galchen, American Innovations: Review
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen Fourth Estate, May 2014 Reviewed by Tania Hershman “I had not always – had not even long – been a daylight ghost, a layabout, a mal pensant, a … Continue reading
Peter Tieryas Liu, Watering Heaven: Review
Watering Heaven by Peter Tieryas Liu Signal8Press, 2012 Reviewed by Elaine Chiew “‘It’s silence I want to hear,’ he said. ‘That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn’t … Continue reading
Fractals: Short Stories by Joanna Walsh. Review.
Fractals: Short Stories by Joanna Walsh 3:AM Press, 2013 Reviewed by Hannah Tuson “All your life you’ve been asked to choose: to be the woman who didn’t drink canned sodas, who didn’t watch American television … Continue reading
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz: Review
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. Chatto & Windus, 2011 Reviewed by Tania Hershman “Inside everyone, I thought, there is the child they once were. … Continue reading
Review of As Long As It Takes by Maria C. McCarthy
As Long As It Takes by Maria C. McCarthy Cultured Llama, 2014 Reviewed by Pauline Masurel “It’s a woman’s life. What else will you do if you don’t have children?” The title story … Continue reading
Review of Smoked Meat by Rowena Macdonald
Smoked Meat by Rowena Macdonald Flambard Press, 2011 Reviewed by Elaine Chiew “What will we do without chocolate?” “We gotta start havin’ sex instead.” After Jennifer Egan’s A Visit To The … Continue reading
Alice Munro Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature!
We are so excited here at Short Review Towers that last week Alice Munro, one of the greatest living writers, and one who has focussed on the short story, was … Continue reading
From the Archives: Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro Penguin, 1968 Reviewed by Brian George in 2010 “Mason Williams was one of the heroes of the school; he played basketball and … Continue reading
