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"If 'Gatsby' stays with us one hundred years later, it is perhaps this musical quality more than any other that explains its staying power." On the centenary of "The Great Gatsby": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/happy-annive...

"There's something very 'Utah' about this book." A review of "Rodeo" (@autumnhousepress.bsky.social), Sunni Brown Wilkinson's new collection of poetry: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-20/

"Lalami offers a harrowing and cerebral meditation on state control, surveillance, and the unreliability of intention in a world where the unconscious mind is no longer private." A review of Laila Lalami's "The Dream Hotel" (@pantheonbooks.bsky.social‬): lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-27/

"Vegas becomes a symbol not just of excess and reinvention but of the deep tensions between human ambition and environmental limitations." A review of Kyle Paoletta's "American Oasis" (@pantheonbooks.bsky.social‬): lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/nonfiction-3/

"While she is well aware of water issues, Eloise is continually impressed by the 'fearsome and optimistic' outlook that drives development in the region." A review of Madeleine Watts's new novel, "Elegy, Southwest": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-29/

"The desert beyond Gabriela's backyard becomes a surreal landscape—a place of furtive movements and jarring sounds, where time is irregular and the cacti are closing in." A review of José Rivera's "References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/theatre-3/

"A prominent vein of esoteric knowledge winds through the poems in 'The Rose,' evoking classical mythology, medieval theology, modern astrology, and—maybe—witchcraft." A review of Ariana Reines's new work of poetry (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-19/

"Rutherford is at his best when, like Melville before him, he channels the feeling that a legendary epoch is about to give way to a bleak and depressing future." A review of "North Sun; or, The Voyage of the Whaleship 'Esther'" (@deepvellum.bsky.social‬): lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-28/

"What is striking about Baker’s book is how it frames the entrepreneurial work ethic as a kind of religious movement." A review of Erik Baker's "Make Your Own Job": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-5/

"Durbin’s novel is a darkly fun trip through the moral gloam of nineteenth-century America." A review of Frederic S. Durbin's "The Country Under Heaven": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-25/

"The smoke in the collection gains power not by analogically suggesting but by thematically abutting the book’s focus on motherhood." A review of "Smother," Rachel Richardson's new book of poetry: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-18/

"'Big Chief' is a remarkable debut—gritty, gorgeously written, politically astute, and emotionally resonant." A review of Jon Hickey's new novel: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-26/

"It’s not hard to imagine Jay Gatsby building a lavish (if gaudy) hotel-casino and throwing beautiful parties in Las Vegas." On One Hundred Years of "The Great Gatsby": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/happy-annive...

"The poems often seem on the verge of leaping into song." A review of "Rodeo," by Sunni Brown Wilkinson: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-20/

"What if your unconscious thoughts were read algorithmically, stripped of nuance and context, and weaponized into proof of your deviance?" A review of "The Dream Hotel," by Laila Lalami: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-27/

"Paoletta argues that the Southwest serves as both a preview of America’s future and a model for how cities might adapt to climate and resource challenges." A review of "American Oasis," by Kyle Paoletta: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/nonfiction-3/

"The novel captures a desert spirit that often proves elusive to writers." A review of "Elegy, Southwest," by Madeleine Watts: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-29/

"A tremendous fount of desire fuels this play." A review of A Public Fit Theatre Company's production of José Rivera's "References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/theatre-3/

"'The Rose' is characterized both by a playfulness and by a conviction—a sense that the sensual and the symbolic are still essential." A review of a new book of poetry by Ariana Reines: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-19/

"'The ice renders time and distance meaningless,' and experience can no longer be distinguished from hallucination." A review of Ethan Rutherford's new novel, "North Sun; or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-28/

"Baker’s book astutely captures the cultural abandonment of the worker for the celestial sheen of the CEO." A review of Erik Baker's "Make Your Own Job": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-5/

"'The Country Under Heaven' serves as a tintype snapshot of a war-ravaged nation haunted by ghosts of brother-on-brother bloodshed." A review of Frederic S. Durbin's new novel: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-25/

"The collection profits from being read as a single entity rather than as an assortment of verses." A review of "Smother," Rachel Richardson's new collection of poetry: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-18/

"In Hickey’s hands, corruption is not just political—it’s metaphysical." A review of Jon Hickey's novel "Big Chief": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-26/

Check out the current issue (Issue #10) of the Las Vegas Review of Books: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/

Check out the newest issue of the Las Vegas Review of Books: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/

"The descriptions of desert vegetation are where Sevigny’s work really shines." A review of Melissa L. Sevigny's "Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-2/

"The narrator is a meticulous master of the mundane and occasionally pontificates upon his well-thought-out approaches to life." A review of Robert Plunket's re-published novel "My Search for Warren Harding": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-10/

"These are not poems of places so much as poems of displacement. One place becomes another, becomes another, becomes another." A review of Megan Fernandes's new collection of poems, "I Do Everything I'm Told": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-8/

"'Wine' is about discovery—not through rote study or ingratiation with the elite but by embracing the subjective, the introspective, the self." A review of Meg Bernhard's "Wine," part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/nonfiction/

The newest issue of LaVeRB features reviews of recently published works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/