Black holes, new religions, and powerful stories ensnare orbiting beings with their intrigue and potentiality in Lavie Tidhar’s science fiction marvel "The Circumference of the World". In the loneliness of his youth, Eugene Hartley... Read More

Secrets choke two London-dwelling refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Christine Evans’s startling, sensitive novel "Nadia". In Nadia’s childhood, being Muslim in Sarajevo was unremarkable. By her young adulthood, it made her a... Read More

A woman immortalized as a villain fights to tell her story in Deirdre Sullivan’s scintillating, lyrical novel "Savage Her Reply". Aife, one of three sisters “fostered” by the druid-warrior Bodhbh to solidify his power, grew up... Read More

"The Hunger Book" excavates thoughts on motherhood and addiction from its powerful memories “of hunger and longing in postwar Poland.” When Agata Izabela Brewer was three years old, communist forces declared martial law in Poland.... Read More

A bruised hole in the sky prompts an extended, desperate search for answers in David Connor’s surrealistic novel "Oh God, the Sun Goes". “Something happened to metaphysical space,” says a stranger in a bar, “and now the sun is... Read More

A woman returns to her childhood haunts in Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s sensual, earthy novel "To the Forest". Decamping their pandemic-shuttered city, a family retreats to a blue cottage in the woods—a place bound by a stream, a... Read More

An ensemble cast—their personalities aching, flawed, and vibrant—intersects across time in Rebekah Bergman’s "The Museum of Human History", a startling novel about memory, desire, and learning to age with grace. Off the coast of... Read More

The fates of a girl who loves the stars, a real estate agent, an envoy for the king, and a taxidermist are plied by the goddess of love in Antoine Laurain’s scintillating, era-crossing romance novel "An Astronomer in Love". Venus does... Read More