In Chad Musick’s novel "From the Lighthouse", a mysterious nonbinary person searches for their place in the multidimensional universe. Musick holds a PhD in mathematics and lectures on knot theory, which informs the novel’s looping... Read More

Rodney Stotts’s heartfelt memoir reveals how he became a master falconer. To expand his drug business, Stotts needed his own apartment. But he had to prove he could afford rent first. He began working with the Earth Conservation Corps... Read More

With elements of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, the fourteen tales of Richard Thomas’s "Spontaneous Human Combustion" explore gruesome acts and fears. Set in landscapes ranging from mundane to spectacular, and from Chicago’s... Read More

Rebekah Iliff’s "Champagne for One" turns myths about solitude on their head. A lighthearted miscellany of stories, poems, and satire, it paints aloneness as something to be prized, rather than pitied. Iliff sets out to banish the... Read More

Robert Kerbeck’s juicy memoir "Ruse" tells riveting tales about working in Hollywood and Wall Street at the same time—and about committing white collar crimes. In his twenties, Kerbeck, a struggling actor, found a job listing for a... Read More

Intelligent and humorous, "To Drink and to Eat" covers Guillaume Long’s delightful culinary adventures. Long doesn’t claim to be a food critic, but his work with Le Monde, and his previous volumes of "To Drink and to Eat",... Read More

"Literature for a Changing Planet" articulates a new framework for reading classic and contemporary literature to better understand humanity’s damaging planetary impacts. This cogent, passionate text argues for a comprehensive... Read More

In Mónica Ojeda’s sinuous novel "Jawbone", six wealthy private school girls form a dangerous clique. The six girls share obsessions with Instagram, crocodiles, La Llorona, Slender Man, and the cropped chic of... Read More