An emotional collection of contemporary queer romance stories, Ayla Vejdani’s book "You X Me" explores sexuality, self-discovery, and imperialism. Set in the United States and Canada, these short stories follow various courtships,... Read More

Centering an Armenian boy, N. T. McQueen’s outstanding historical novel "Never Hide from the Devil" roils around a genocide, as Turkish forces surround the city of Van. Most of the story takes place over one month in 1915, when the... Read More

The road to peace and love is paved with poise and self-discovery in Juda Bennett’s coming-of-New-Age memoir "Qtopia". Bennett was expected and encouraged by his nuclear family parents to join the military upon his high school... Read More

G. G. Silverman’s dark, inventive story collection adapts horror and fairy-tale tropes to explore motherhood and the repercussions of misogynistic violence. Women’s bodies herein are imperiled by sadistic men and acts of... Read More

Scrappy women are taunted by the abuses and violence of their pasts in Grace Spulak’s blistering short story collection "Magdalena Is Brighter than You Think". In the title story, a teenage girl is haunted by her brother’s ghost; she... Read More

Told via overlapping, time-jumping narratives, Laura Kasischke’s fragmentary novel, "The Lifeguard", centers small-town residents whose lives intertwine following a boy’s drowning. As the residents of Mission Hills, Michigan, grow... Read More

What is sweet can also immobilize you in Geoffrey D. Morrison’s alarming, wondrous speculative novel "The Coffin of Honey", a searing indictment of capitalist destruction wrapped in the pleasures of a first contact tale. Amid the... Read More

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