With elements of magical realism, Tathagata Bhattacharya’s rollicking satirical novel "General Firebrand and His Red Atlas" covers the machinations of political alliances and regimes. On the Indian subcontinent, the guerrillas of Sands... Read More

Sejal Shah’s intrepid short story collection "How to Make Your Mother Cry" is a polysemous encounter connecting auditory and visual modes. Interspersed with ephemera—memory-photographs, childlike drawings, Indian dance notations, a... Read More

Set in the Canadian tundra and propelled by a twenty-five-year-old mystery, Gerard Beirne’s exquisite novel "The Thickness of Ice" is a love story that’s also about culpability and redemption. Jack, Wade’s best friend and a... Read More

A crisis exposes faultlines in a marriage in Cormac James’s whipsmart, lyrical novel "Trondheim". In the winter, Trondheim ought to be magical, but to Lil and Alba, who are in the grip of a family emergency, it reads as surreal.... 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

The tales of E. Lily Yu’s brilliant, sparkling collection "Jewel Box" are fantastical, rich, and strange. They brim with imagination and insights and are diverse when it comes to geography and cultural details. Here, inanimate objects... Read More

Céline Keating’s lush, elegiac novel "The Stark Beauty of Last Things" limns Montauk in stunning prose and highlights loss, the transience of home, and the impermanence of human affections. Revolving around a prized land parcel... Read More

In the short stories of Lynn Levin’s wry, tragicomic collection "House Parties", some people struggle; others behave badly. In “Tell Us About Your Experience,” an office worker who’s sick of filling out satisfaction surveys... Read More