The Seaboard Review of Books: Monday Edition
March 23, 2026
In this issue:
A Watch of Nightingales, by Catherine Walker (Fiction)
Northern Girls: True Stories by Michelle Willms (Non-Fiction)
Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, Unimaginable Futures, and the Pursuit of Things That May Never Be by Mark Medley (Non-Fiction)
Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems by Kyla Houbolt (Poetry)
Interposition by Kaie Kellough (Poetry)
The Inventive Disorder of Childhood (Fiction, Children’s Books)
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Fiction
A Watch of Nightingales by Catherine Walker
“The meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away.”
Non-Fiction
Northern Girls: True Stories by Michelle Willms
Life in the North is brutal and glorious. The woods and waterways are beautiful; the things that happen at the forest’s margin come from darkest fairytale. Children are malleable; kids who grow up in such an environment will adapt to the shape of its dysfunction. We learn to alternate between fight or fawn, flight or freeze. Let me be the first to assur…
Children’s
The Inventive Disorder of Childhood
What happens when two magical figures arrive at the same house on the same night? In her debut picture book, A Magical Passover (Starring the Tooth Fairy), journalist Danyael Halprin transforms that whimsical premise into a incisive portrayal of how children draw tradition into a broader, more chaotic imaginative world.
Poetry
Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems by Kyla Houbolt
After reading But Then I Thought by Kyla Houbolt (above/ground, 2023) and Dawn’s Fool https://kylahoubolt.us/dawns-fool.html by Kyla Houbolt (above/ground, 2024) I wanted to read more of this fascinating brain. Trouble is her publications are mostly in the U.S. and getting books in or out of the U.S. is a bugaboo these days, to put it mildly. Nonethele…
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