In Erica McKeen’s dazzling novel "Cicada Summer", a young woman, her ex-lover, and her aging grandfather reckon with the aftermath of tragedy while cloistered together in a remote cabin in the Canadian wilderness. In the summer of... Read More

Downtrodden heroes are the focus of "Prairie Edge", an intimate, unsparing novel about the lives of Indigenous people in Canada. Ezzy is an aimless young man of Métis descent who has been scarred by stints in prison. He struggles to... 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

The freedom to live life on its own terms is at stake in Omar Youssef Souleimane’s novel "The Last Syrian", about the Arab Spring in Syria. When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in desperation over the situation in his native... Read More

"Arctic Traverse" is a captivating memoir about a fifty-eight-day trek across remote arctic terrain in northern Alaska. During his “990-mile summer,” Michael Engelhard backpacked and floated the length of the Brooks Range, from the... Read More

Jonathan Corcoran’s poignant memoir "No Son of Mine" chronicles both his life and his mother’s, unraveling the complex emotions involved with grief, family, and acceptance. In 2020, Corcoran received news that his mother, Patty, had... Read More

In the short stories that make up Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio’s novel "Reuniting with Strangers", women from the Philippines try to make places for themselves halfway across the world. For many Filipinas in the collection, the only way... Read More