In Christine Lai’s haunting novel "Landscapes", a wounded woman contends with memories, artifacts, loss, and hope. Penelope is an English country estate’s archivist and... Read More

With a mix of humor, melancholy, and pathos, Kevin Maloney’s memorable novel "The Red-Headed Pilgrim" follows an office worker through his midlife crisis. In his childhood,... Read More

Grief and reckoning take many forms in Paige Clark’s expressive collection "She Is Haunted". Haunting is most often a regret that tethers one to a place or people: that is the... Read More

The chaos of current events takes on a supernatural dimension in John Elizabeth Stintzi’s novel "My Volcano". In the summer of 2016, all over the world, there are strange... Read More

A piercing novel about death, grief, and the lengths people will go to escape them, Ella Baxter’s "New Animal" is not for the faint of heart. Amelia, a cosmetic mortician with... Read More

The 2014 Crimean war becomes the backdrop of a more personal drama in Kalani Pickhart’s novel "I Will Die in a Foreign Land". In late 2013, Ukraine explodes into political... Read More

The short stories of Adam Thompson’s collection "Born Into This" center on the lives of Aboriginal and immigrant Tasmanians. In these natural, ethereal tales, characters’... Read More

Happiness is a horror when you don’t believe you deserve it; so an immigrant learns in Yelena Moskovich’s daring literary novel, "A Door Behind a Door". Olga, who grew up on... Read More

Melanie Finn’s novel "The Hare" interrogates the complicated, often messy aesthetics of modern womanhood. Rosie is guileless, yearning, and eighteen when she submits a... Read More

Haunted and haunting, Yelena Moskovich’s "Virtuoso" shifts through gradients of the past and the present, capturing the tumult and change of the 1990s and early 2000s in... Read More

An interrogation of language, pop culture, society, and the self, Andre Perry’s essay collection "Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now" dissects uncomfortable truths and... Read More

A literary foray into the macabre madness of womanhood, Sarah Rose Etter’s "The Book of X" captures the innocent joys and creeping horrors of a young girl’s trek into... Read More