In the late 1960s, a grieving twelve-year-old navigates the limitations of her group home in "Doubles", Nora Gold’s poignant novella about a derailed girlhood. Before her mother died, the narrator’s life on her family farm was... Read More

Set among a New Jersey synagogue’s staff and congregants in the month prior to the October 7, 2023 attacks, Nathaniel Popkin’s sobering novel "Partly Strong, Partly Broken" reveals the discord already roiling in liberal Jewish... Read More

Three Mississippian brothers abandon their Confederate posts, only to encounter fresh miseries on the road home, in Philip Fracassi’s riveting horror novel "Sarafina". Ethan, a twin and the youngest of three brothers, tires of the... Read More

Southern Gothic meets feminist, supernatural horror in Allison Cundiff’s thrilling novel "The Mysterious Women of J Road", in which a gifted woman raised on the righteous side of an Ozarks divide is forced toward self-reckoning. The... Read More

A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her idyllic childhood, wherein her father was an architect. While... Read More

Anna Nerkagi’s subtle but powerful novel "White Moss" captures generational shifts among Siberia’s indigenous Nenets people. Among the Nenets, nomadic reindeer herders in the polar tundra, little is easy. Traditions clash with the... Read More

"She’s Such a Liar" is a powerful feminist tract that reveals the underlying hypocrisy and corruption of traditional approaches to the subject of incest. Susan Osborn’s persuasive feminist tract "She’s Such a Liar" explores the... Read More

Two hurting families heal with the help of an ancient Jewish ritual in Jessica Brilliant Keener’s affecting, hope-filled novel "Evening Begins the Day". After learning about her husband’s emotional affair, Rachel is bereft. She flees... Read More