There is a wide-eyed sweetness that lurks underneath the hostility of this novel, told in journal style. As with an actual knucklehead, with time and patience, the rewards well exceed the effort. Young, black law student Marcus Hayes... Read More

"Near Haven" takes on the apocalypse with literary flair and shining prose. In "Near Haven", by Matthew Stephen Sirois, a looming apocalypse puts life into perspective. This is a contemplative and violently engaging character study. In... Read More

"An Unkindness of Ghosts" launches the career of a brilliantly gifted and important new writer in science fiction. With "An Unkindness of Ghosts", Rivers Solomon inarguably shows themselves to be a literary child of genre leader Octavia... Read More

Oney’s articles offer intimate portraits of fascinating, heroic men. Across forty years, Steve Oney has written numerous articles for national magazines concentrating on the challenges that men face. Consider this book, carefully... Read More

This satirical commentary on the lack of empathy within contemporary society also has a complicated main character. Joel Spring’s "Calculus of Death" strikes a satirically violent tone as it deconstructs a deeply flawed and damaged... Read More

This sobering, respectful collection brings a haunting legacy out of the viciousness of the war. "Dancing on a Powder Keg" elucidates one Jewish woman’s experience in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Translated from the German by... Read More

At turns comedic, profound, hypersexed, imaginative, and jagged, this is a thoughtful tribute to the youths of the Kennedy era. "Goodbye, Rudy Kazoody" is an American coming-of-age novel set in an Italian immigrant neighborhood. A. A.... Read More

Decock is an intellectual up to the task of challenging some of our most cherished notions of democracy. Yves Decock’s compelling disquisition, "Liberal Quicksand", will be a hard pill to swallow for lovers of liberal democracy. But in... Read More