Unsparing and expressive, the moving memoir "The Peril of Remembering Nice Things" explores the pernicious roots of Southern heritage. Jeffrey Wade Gibbs’s absorbing memoir "The Peril of Remembering Nice Things" recounts his father’s... Read More

In Poupeh Missaghi’s literary novella "Sound Museum", an enthusiastic curator celebrates the aural elements of torture. Before an exclusive tour of her museum, an Iranian curator delivers an opening speech to the invited foreign... Read More

Visual anthropologist and filmmaker Sarah Thomas’s eloquent memoir-in-essays "The Raven’s Nest" covers her time in Iceland, where her views about people’s relationships to land and to each other sharpened. The book draws contrasts... Read More

Plant physiologist Rebecca E. Hirsch’s botanical reference text "A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants" explores the fascinating, often grisly world of dangerous plants. Clear and precise, the twenty-three chapters each cover a... Read More

In Jackson Ellis’s provocative science fiction novel "Black Days", a despondent Vermont man’s inspired plan leads to disaster, raising questions about the consequences of unchecked human ambition. Daniel is divorced, unemployed, and... Read More

In the bold, experimental stories of Juan Carlos Reyes’s "Three Alarm Fire", reading is a riddle that results in salvation. Shifting in register from abject horror to cool irony and featuring slippery, compelling details, this is a... Read More

In A. M. Shine’s captivating fantasy novel "Stay in the Light", people attempt to outrun frightening and powerful creatures called the Watchers. The Watchers are changelings who take on the appearance of human beings and hide out in... Read More

In Tyler Wetherall’s novel "Amphibian", a prepubescent girl grapples with new desires, codependent relationships, and incomprehensible threats. Eleven-year-old Sissy is an outcast at her new school. At home, she serves as caretaker to... Read More