Afghani American Fowzia Karimi immigrated to the US with her family after the 1980 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and grew up in Southern California. Negotiating the before and after of that seismic childhood event requires reckoning... Read More

Nicholas Buccola’s "The Fire Is upon Us" is a riveting, expansive companion text to a historic debate that swept the nation. On February 18th, 1965, two high-profile thinkers met to discuss a pressing question: “Is the American Dream... Read More

Personal vendettas lead to political upheaval in Tim Murgatroyd’s "Pilgrim Tale". A hundred years in the future, after the Great Dying has wiped out much of the world’s population, Michael Pilgrim and his family and friends in... Read More

Wars may begin on the battlefield, but they end on a map. "The Bird King" is an exquisite fantasy about the end of Muslim sovereignty in the West, the power of desire to disrupt and transform, and how the privilege of naming can reshape... Read More

Science fiction and erotica both make their way into this complicated novel. Mark Kingston Levin’s novel 30th Century: Revived combines elements of science fiction, erotica, and a political thriller into a novel that sometimes seems... Read More

"From Bird Mountain" is a fresh tale of the Viking world. Lyle Fugleberg’s historical novel "From Bird Mountain" is set in the Viking age and tells a familiar tale from a different, more realistic, point of view. Brothers Gyrth and... Read More

In Jodi Taylor’s An Argumentation of Historians, the eccentric historians of St. Mary’s return for another, more individually focused time-travel adventure. Dr. Lucy Maxwell—affectionately called Max—returns from 1536 after an... Read More

“The note said: Wally, I will not live in a tarpaper shack the rest of my life. Love, Bette.” That’s what ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovered on the kitchen table the day her mother and their neighbor, Alice McFee, disappeared.... Read More