There are more frightening things to be haunted by than ghosts in Circe Moskowitz’s horror anthology "All These Sunken Souls". Intense teenage emotions, the pressure of looming adulthood, generational traumas, and the stress of being... Read More

Parnaz Foroutan’s "Home Is a Stranger" is a personal and political memoir about being a woman, and an Iranian American, in both the US and Iran. Foroutan left Iran when she was six, during the rise of Ayatollah Khomeni. She grew up in... Read More

A troubled ghost asks whether love can survive death in Lucy Banks’s compelling mystery, "The Hanged Man and the Fortune Teller". Two ghosts wander London. One has forgotten his identity and is losing his few remaining memories. The... Read More

In Natalie Blitt’s romance, "The Truth About Leaving", high school senior Lucy Green discovers that things seldom go as planned. Fresh on the heels of a breakup, Lucy meets Dov Meiri, a new Israeli student whose future as a conscript... Read More

“Long ago I stopped trying to explain you to anyone,” Reema Zaman says to her imaginary interlocutor, addressed simply as “Love.” Caught “somewhere between formed and forming,” Zaman archives a personal journey that’s... Read More

"A Light of Her Own" is a beautifully crafted story set in seventeenth-century Holland, in which two women navigate the law, destiny, and their unstoppable ambition. Painting is Judith Leyster’s passion and calling, and she will not be... Read More

Camille DeAngelis’s "The Boy from Tomorrow" is a complex and beautiful puzzle of times and places that comes together in a way that is a little bit eerie, a little bit sad, and a little bit hopeful. Twelve-year-old Alec and his mother... Read More