A lone human in a synthetic world is undone by unanswerable questions in the unsettling dystopian novel Conquergood & the Center of the Intelligible Mystery of Being. In CG Fewston’s dystopian novel Conquergood & the Center of... Read More

A sobering dispatch from a past marked by familiar prejudices, "The Trials of Madame Restell" is Nicholas L. Syrett’s consequential biography of a woman who defied changing norms to protect women’s health. Ann Trow—later known as... Read More

In Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s expansive short story collection, some form of craving—either literal or metaphysical—factors into every person’s tale. A woman who craved olives as a child is forever cursed to flashback through the... Read More

A top-tier work of prison literature, Ahmed Naji’s poetic memoir "Rotten Evidence" follows his 2016 sentencing by an Egyptian court for “moral turpitude” over a novel excerpt. Beginning with Naji’s entry into prison, the book... Read More

A layered scholar’s memoir, Susan J. Godwin’s "Rain Dodging" details and personalizes her research into the late seventeenth-century Stuart court of Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II. While studying at Oxford, Godwin became... Read More

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young’s insightful book "Wrong" investigates the political and philosophical reasons why people rely on information that they know is false. While living in Philadelphia, Young struggled to make sense of the green,... Read More

In Aley Waterman’s striking novel "Mudflowers", a woman finds love in the aftermath of her mother’s passing. Sophie, a struggling artist in Toronto, gravitates between two lovers: Alex, whom she has known since childhood, and Maggie,... Read More

Michael J. Wilson’s lyrical, pensive novella "A Labyrinth" reimagines the Greek myths of Daedalus, King Minos, Queen Pasiphaë, and the labyrinth of the minotaur. The book begins with a direct address regarding the concept of a... Read More