Raising a toast to mothers while offering practical tips, these essays provide a hard-won wisdom that psychology-based manuals often don’t. Nineties sitcom actress, singer,... Read More

Christopher Steinvold merges science fiction and social satire in this quirky and highly entertaining look at first contact in the not-too-distant future. When Earth looks up... Read More

On the planet Gleese, in a future so distant that Earth is a forgotten memory, unlikely heroes struggle to live up to the demands of their new roles. Picking up where Fabrick... Read More

Existential questions in the midst of grand conflicts, all peppered with elves, goblins, and otherworldly creatures—and James Bartholomeusz juggles them all well. This last... Read More

In pre-Civil War Louisiana, young Sarah Wade talks to the dead. She inherited this tendency from her grandmother through no fault of her own, but it renders her too odd for... Read More

In Ireland, a “keener” is one who sings at a wake, but these aren’t pretty songs to guide the dead to their immortal rest. Rather, they are wrenching laments, crying for a... Read More