"The Living and the Dead" is a challenging and intriguing counterpoint to the modern embrace of the static and the tangible. Toby Austin Locke’s "The Living and the Dead" ventures into the nebulous interconnectedness of life and death... Read More

Women have assumed presidential power before, as this compelling portrait of Edith Wilson shows. Has America already had a woman president? William Hazelgrove’s Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson makes a compelling... Read More

With echoes of 1984 and Brave New World, Rabasa delivers a forceful, hysterical debut that’s one for the political ages. “Outside of vague moral notions and Manichean fables, truth was, in reality, no use at all,” muses a character... Read More

With its masterful writing and epic scope, it is certain to find its own footing as an enduring work of world literature. Late in the novel "A Spare Life", by Lidija Dimkovska, a character asserts that “every pain is both local and... Read More

An egregious murder in a beloved church initiates a compelling whodunit in this energetic and original crime novel. How do you catch a killer in one of the world’s most celebrated churches, particularly during the Feast of the... Read More

The novel’s beating heart is the power, scope, and ramifications of duty, loyalty, and brotherhood. In his intense and empathetic "Arizona Moon", J. M. Graham draws upon his own Vietnam War experiences. Corporal “Reach” Strader... Read More

These stories are peopled with unconventional women navigating between freedom and family ties. The thirteen stories in Leesa Dean’s vibrant "Waiting for the Cyclone" range across the Americas, depicting characters who long for... Read More

Knowledge is a form of both escape and imprisonment, in this intricate and prismatic novel. In beautifully detached prose, Carlos Fonseca Suárez’s "Colonel Lágrimas" weaves the past and present together in an intricate web of memory.... Read More