Immersive and exciting, Denny S. Bryce’s novel "Wild Women and the Blues" is set between Chicago’s 1920s jazz scene and a film student’s present. In the 1920s, nineteen-year-old Honoree dances as a chorus girl in a speakeasy.... Read More

"Mirror Lake" might appear to be a mystery at first glance, but Andrée A. Michaud’s sometimes confounding, sometimes funny novel defies easy categorization. Recently relocated to an isolated lake in Maine, crotchety Robert and his dog... Read More

First published in 1995, Minae Mizumura’s "An I-Novel" was Japan’s “first bilingual novel;” this translation maintains its original tone and cross-cultural resonance. In the mid-1980s, the narrator, Minae, sips whiskey while... Read More

Much of science and the study of nature in the years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859 came down to an effort to understand the mind of God. Through that lens, wildflowers and birdsong were viewed as... Read More

In the pleasant novel "The Watchman’s Son", an everyman works toward forgiveness and love. In R. J. Stachofsky’s reflective novel "The Watchman’s Son", a teenager travels the back roads of Oregon, searching for more. Jacob is a... Read More

Adam Wilson’s near-future "Sensation Machines" is a delayed bildungsroman for a whole generation. Wendy and Michael met as college students in New York while navigating the detritus of September 11, 2001. He was a Marshall Mathers... Read More

In Helene Dunbar’s "Prelude for Lost Souls", a charming small town boasts spiritualism and secret societies. Every summer, St. Hilaire opens its gates and welcomes desperate tourists who are looking for answers from its psychic... Read More

"The Hardhat Riot" moves, moment by tense moment, through May 8, 1970, a day known as Bloody Friday, which led to the fracturing of the Democratic Party and an opportunity for Richard Nixon. Starting with a glimpse of the fateful hour... Read More