The emotional, provocative stories collected in What’s Next? concern the apprehension that accompanies change. There is one echoing question in the throes of transformation—a question that can linger and settle in the bones, a... Read More

In "Lech", lives intersect in the mountains of New York, exposing the countless banalities and brutalities of generations. Within pages of the book’s start, a character recalls being assaulted as a child. This sets the tone for the... Read More

Ben Aitken’s "The Marmalade Diaries", is about becoming housemates with a much older stranger during Britain’s second Covid-19 lockdown. Aitken met Winnie in October of 2020. Winnie’s children were concerned about their... Read More

In Jennifer Dupree’s gripping novel, two women in rural Maine examine the meanings of motherhood and family. Rose is thirty-nine and married, with a two-year-old son and a second child on the way. She and her husband Hank are building... Read More

In the post-apocalyptic novel "The Redeemed", human beings who may have lost their access to the future struggle with what they should believe. R. V. Minkler’s thrilling novel "The Redeemed" is an apocalyptic adventure with a spiritual... Read More

Troubled Los Angeles high schoolers unite in Emilia Ares’s romance novel "Love and Other Sins". The daughter of Russian immigrants, Mina isolates herself, assuming a capable demeanor. Her father is absent, and her mother, despite... Read More

Based on a singular interpretation of the Bible, the short stories of "Kingdom Financing" suggest means of improving one’s financial and moral life. Milton Maye’s biblical short story collection "Kingdom Financing" uses short... Read More

"Paradise Earth" is a provocative literary novel that highlights the complex relationship between violence and compassion. In Amy Barker’s existential novel "Paradise Earth", a trio faces demons on a Tasmanian peninsula that’s known... Read More