K Chess’s magnificent speculative novel "Famous Men Who Never Lived" straddles two among infinite worlds, “starting off the same and hurtling to two wholly different... Read More

In Elliot Reed’s captivating "A Key to Treehouse Living", William Tyce narrates the unusual and personalized glossary of his troubled young life. William was abandoned by... Read More

"Who Is Vera Kelly?" is a lively, suspenseful cinematic novel. This coming-of-age story is set in New York in the early 1960s. Working late-night shifts for a local radio... Read More

Food becomes a vehicle for grief in this fascinating, sympathetic family story. Macabre in its gastronomic obsession and sometimes hyperbolic, Noley Reid’s Pretend We are... Read More

With a lyrical voice, Pamela Erens has written a novel about first love and sexual awakening that is multilayered and perceptive. This novel of academia is set in a fictional... Read More

For every celebrated work of art there is surely someone willing to steal it. Most of us remain obediently behind the velvet ropes that keep us from edging too close to a... Read More

But he will still be hunted, for all that. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. He’s all a magnet! To borrow from Herman Melville, the... Read More

A cursing dog, a rosebush that channels the dead, an eight-year-old rabies victim and a man who looks strangely like a capybara all collide—together with a multitude of baked... Read More

Oscar Wilde said, “All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.” He might have been describing the strange adventures of... Read More

“If things were as they should be, another kid would be telling you how to do these things, or you’d be telling another kid. But since I’m the only kid left around who... Read More

Filled with strangely dysfunctional people, this unusual novel careens from Baltimore to Colorado and back again as two women struggle over possession of five-year-old Emily.... Read More

Is it possible to make yogurt—that bland, colorless, jiggling bowl of prosaic foodstuff— into a substance that’s not only creepy, but slightly macabre? If so, novelist and... Read More