"Drummer Girl" is a thoughtful memoir about unwinding inner turmoil and uncovering “answers to the numinous” through meditation. Sally Dukes’s mystical memoir "Drummer Girl" interrogates the fallout of the open-heart surgery she... Read More

A Vestal virgin defends her honor to save her life in Victoria Alvear’s "The Cleansing", a riveting novel set in an ancient Rome. At a time when the “truth no longer matters” and misogyny, violence, and superstition reign,... Read More

The religious treatise "Creation, Life, and Purpose" is rigorous in its analyses of thorny biblical topics and apparent contradictions between faith and science. Mike A. Bills’s compelling religious treatise "Creation, Life, and... Read More

A passionate couple from different sides of the Soviet divide avoids discussing their inevitable rifts in Yelena Moskovich’s sultry, wrenching novel-in-verse, "Nadezhda in the Dark". During a “black-milk,” mournful winter, as... Read More

Romantic subplots are used to explore feminine power in "Lady of Lincoln", a heady historical novel involving high-stakes political maneuvering. In Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s engaging historical novel "Lady of Lincoln", a spirited... Read More

About the value of travels abroad, "Bergen Spring" is a warm coming-of-age novel. Following his brother’s death, a man goes on a backpacking trip in Michael Cummings’s contemplative novel "Bergen Spring". In 1973, Erik, a theater... Read More

A work of variety and experimentation, the short story collection "20/40" treats the near future with speculative fervor and inventive storytelling. Steven Sarshik’s science fiction collection "20/40" glimpses into the near future with... Read More

In the musing speculative novel "Coherence", an AI program that was started with noble intentions goes awry. In Aaron Parsons’s thought-provoking science fiction novel "Coherence", a self-directed AI poses a credible world threat. In... Read More