In the pulp mystery "Dear Durwood", a gallant ex-soldier defends a blue-collar town from a legal coup—and finds romance, too. In Jeff Bond’s mystery novel "Dear Durwood", a hero with a heart of gold throws himself into saving a small... Read More

Told as a series of stories, "The South of Black Forgiveness" exposes racial prejudice among police. Donna Clovis’s novel in vignettes, "The South of Black Forgiveness", moves between crime scenes to confront police militarization and... Read More

Call me Immigrant. In your country, I do the essential work to keep your living standards high, even as you jeer at me and pay me nowhere near the same dollars you do to your exalted citizens, for the same work. Of late, I am coming into... Read More

Will Bashor puts Marie Antoinette’s tumultuous life under the microscope in his historical analysis, Marie Antoinette’s World. Marie Antoinette has long been shrouded in secrecy and scandal, from her marriage to indecisive Louis XVI... Read More

The pulp thriller "Anarchy of the Mice" is inflected with interesting social commentary. In Jeff Bond’s engrossing novel "Anarchy of the Mice", an unlikely trio stands against a hacker collective. In the near future, corruption spreads... Read More

"The Insurmountable Edge" is an intriguing potboiler that portrays a frightening scenario of a US-China confrontation. Thomas H. Goodfellow’s timely political thriller "The Insurmountable Edge" imagines a world in which the US and... Read More

Based on the early life of Bob Dylan, Baron Wormser’s "Songs from a Voice" is a meditation on the nature of poetry and identity in the evolving culture of America’s mid-twentieth century. Abe grows up in lower middle class Jewish... Read More

Sharon Harrigan’s "Half" mimics the triumphant defects of every family in its excavations of the peculiar remains of one. Narrated through the entwined perceptions and insights of identical twins, seldom heard by anyone other than the... Read More