Neill reviews Baldwin
Saturday Review: “The Interrogating Partiality: Questioning as a Path Toward the Whole Truth” a review by Sterling Neill of Carol Baldwin’s Half-Truths (2025) in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Book Reviews
NCLR shares a Saturday Review Post weekly: usually a book review from the most recent or forthcoming online issue, but sometimes, in recognition of current events, from a back issue.
Bro reviews Crawford
Saturday Review: “Timelessness and Human Connection” a review by Lisa Wenger Bro of The Miniaturist’s Assistant by Katherine Scott Crawford in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Bennett reviews Starck
Saturday Review: “Virtually Real,” a review by Barbara Bennett of Lindsay Starck’s Monsters We Have Made (2024), in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Neal reviews McIlvoy
Saturday Review: “Paying Closer Attention to the Word and the World: McIlvoy’s Radical Reordering of Writerly Advice,” a review of Kevin McIlvoy’s Willingness: A Writer’s Meditation on Crossing the Flood (2025) by Dale Neal in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Davis reviews Black Mountain College Poetry anthology
Saturday review: “Remembering the Poetry of Black Mountain College,” a review by Jeff Davis of Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco, and Joseph Bathanti’s The Anthology of Black Mountain College (2025), forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Gelfand reviews Smith McKoy
Saturday Review: “Perceptions Beyond the Tangible World” a review by Joan Gelfand of Sheila Smith McKoy’s The Bones Beneath (2024) in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Thomas reviews Presnell
Saturday Review: “Unresolved Grief and World War II Memories” a review by Elaine Thomas of Otherwise, I’m Fine by Barbara Presnell in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Dennis reviews McElmurray
Saturday Review: “A Place Called Vulnerable” a review by Laura Dennis of Karen Salyer McElmurray’s I Could Name God in Twelve Ways (2024) in NCLR Online Winter 2026.
Dasgupta reviews Laux
Saturday Review: “Art as Practice,” a review by Sayantani Dasgupta of Dorianne Laux’s Finger Exercises for Poets forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2026
Cory reviews Tuck
Saturday Review: “Railroads, Relationships, and Reality,” a review by Jessica Cory of Dean Marshall Tuck’s Twinless Twin (2025) forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2026.