A marginalized woman is sent into a black hole for the good of her community in Balsam Karam’s extraordinary speculative novel "Event Horizon". Milde was eight years old when... Read More

A tantalizing smorgasbord of culinary memories, Karolina Ramqvist’s memoir discusses family and community love in terms of shared dishes. Ramqvist’s earliest recollections... Read More

In Balsam Karam’s timely novel "The Singularity", the lives of two refugee women intersect with anonymous resonance. In an unnamed coastal city, a mother searches for her... Read More

In Steve Sem-Sandberg’s historical novel "W.", a soldier is sentenced to death for murder during the Napoleonic Wars. Always at the wrong place at the wrong time, Johann... Read More

Women’s stories often must be rescued from the margins of history, as a writer on a difficult research expedition is reminded in Karolina Ramqvist’s introspective novel "The... Read More

Self-identity, status, and gender are at the core of Girls Lost, Jessica Schiefauer’s bold and compelling story in which three teenage girls who are social outcasts transcend... Read More

Johannes Anyuru’s stunning They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears is a rare, powerful multiverse novel that reflects the best and worst of human potential. Pushed from a... Read More