Archaeology department graduate students encounter more than mere relics on an expedition gone wrong in Ella Alexander’s wry novel "The Sleeping Land". Kit, Val, and Mark... Read More

Acclaimed journalist Joaquim Arena traverses the hidden byways of Portugal’s slave trade while reconstructing his own fractured identity in his evocative book "Under Our... Read More

Dale Maharidge explores personal strife, land ownership, and American history in his mystery novel "Burn Coast". A writer and reporter from New York owns land on the California... Read More

Jennifer Croft’s "Homesick" is a tender, disturbing memoir of sisterly love that penetrates the insular world of childhood to reveal its secrets, loyalties, and fears. Croft,... Read More

Adam Popescu’s "Nima" is a heroine’s journey wherein the call to adventure is shaped by feminism as a choice. Set against the backdrop of Mount Everest, this portrait of a... Read More

Witty, melancholic, and dramatic by turns, Rheea Mukherjee’s "The Body Myth" is a touching love story about misfits searching for togetherness, even if that togetherness might... Read More

Adam Nemett’s "We Can Save Us All" is a humorous yet sobering pre-apocalyptic scenario. Realistic and smart, this is science fiction at its best. The world seems to be ending,... Read More

T. Sean Steele’s "Tacky Goblin" is a clever, loopy novella that relates the journal entries of an unnamed twentysomething central character. He drifts through ennui-laden days... Read More

"Rubik" is a novel of ghosts—those of memory, technology, relationships, emotion, and bodies—all of them permanently impermanent. Released into these terrains, characters... Read More

Leslie Pietrzyk’s haunting "Silver Girl" begins in 1980, with a nameless narrator starting her freshman year at a prestigious Chicago-area university. The narrator escaped her... Read More

Hossain’s story ripples with magic and just a dash of something twistedly angelic. Whatever your level of familiarity with beings mythological and godlike, rest assured... Read More

Halasa’s prose is revelatory. Wholly authentic and profoundly insightful, Mother of all Pigs, by Malu Halasa, is a captivating look at the lives of a Middle Eastern family. A... Read More