André Alexis ruminates on romance and matrilineal legacies in his eloquent novel Ring, in which Torontonians’ lives are touched by a mysterious ritual. Fusing chance encounters with myth, poetry, and questions of faith and love, this... Read More

John Pavlovitz’s If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk issues a passionate, timely plea for Christians to return to a faith of love and service. Organized religion has missed the mark, Pavlovitz argues. By implying that white Americans are... Read More

In Lee Chappel’s thriller "Crickets", a woman is forced to confront her past, whose threats stretch into the present. Kara fled Paige, Ohio, after she was raped by one of its prominent citizens. Her father’s sudden death forces her... Read More

Bridging Russia, New York City, and Virginia, the short stories of Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry’s What Isn’t Remembered are filled with uneasy relationships that are doomed by the accretion of personal and cultural histories. Plumbing... Read More

No aspect of life is left unexamined in the piercing poems of Ana Castillo’s new collection "My Book of the Dead". Embracing her place as “the original Xicanista,” Castillo’s collection straddles the line between personal and... Read More

A father wrangles with his impending grief in a steampunk, Wild West alternate universe in Lavie Tidhar’s dazzling novel "The Escapement". There was once a boy so beloved that his father delighted in every memory they shared, from... Read More

In "The Isolation Artist", Bob Keyes explores the tumultuous life and death of an influential artist. Robert Indiana is best remembered for his rendering of the word “LOVE” in bold type, the first two letters atop the last two, the... Read More

Kristen Glosserman’s If It’s Not Right, Go Left is an upbeat and approachable lifestyle guide that’s structured around eleven transformative lessons. Covering topics like attitude, mindset, parenting, and self-care, Glosserman... Read More