In "Language City", Ross Perlin argues that the quintessential New Yorker is neither an artist from Brooklyn nor a Wall Street banker, but a working-class multilingual immigrant... Read More

Walter Mosley’s unconventional novel "John Woman" follows a renegade history professor with a dark secret. Cornelius Jones is the biracial son of a brilliant black man from... Read More

What To Do About the Solomons is an absorbing debut novel that is resonant with familial dramas, grudges, and love. This literary debut introduces the Solomons in a sprawling,... Read More

Stories of animal cruelty and electrical wizardry reveal the ruthlessness of history’s “great” men. Topsy, a popular, gentle, intelligent, and sadly abused elephant takes... Read More

When the body of Lorne Wood, a popular teenage girl, is found alongside a towpath in a quiet middle-class community, the neighbors are understandably disturbed. But it gets... Read More

The title novella of Harrison’s new collection is worth the price of admission itself. The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a fine example of mid-length fiction: engaging,... Read More

This is Harrison’s first full-length novel since Dalva a decade ago; a complex, bittersweet prequel encompassing nearly a century of family history from the American... Read More