The horror and devastation of the Civil War are witnessed by two icons of American literature in Norman Lock’s novel "Voices in the Dead House". After the 1862 defeat of the... Read More

Frederic Tuten dares to question the nature of art and life in the short stories of "The Bar at Twilight", several of which were written to accompany gallery exhibitions. In... Read More

The incisive, intriguing novel "Benefit" contemplates standards of accomplishment and value, as well as the ambiguity of capitalistic philanthropy. A decade before the events of... Read More

Ordinary people are haunted by loss and grief in Shahriar Mandanipour’s short story collection "Seasons of Purgatory". In these stories, death is a constant companion. For... Read More

In Norman Lock’s splendid historical novel "Tooth of the Covenant", Nathaniel Hawthorne is troubled by his ancestor’s dark legacy as a harsh, heartless judge. In 1851,... Read More

Forty years of living and boating around New England’s largest stretch of salt marsh gave Patricia Hanlon good familiarity with her local environment. However, it wasn’t... Read More

In Amanda Dennis’s melancholy literary novel "Her Here", a wounded graduate student translates the story of a fellow wanderer. Since her mother died, Elena has shuddered her... Read More

In François Dominique’s esoteric novel "Aseroë", a man ponders life, death, and the in between. Mushrooms are an ancient, inexplicable life form. Their boundary-defying... Read More

Norman Lock’s dark, carnivalesque "American Follies" mines the seamier side of the 1880s through a woman’s febrile imagination and New York sojourns. Ellen, who was once... Read More

"The Bear" is a dreamy dispatch from the end of the world. In Andrew Krivak’s palimpsest novel, the reassertion of nature over the bones of human civilization is a dignified... Read More

Set in Gilded Age New York, Norman Lock’s "Feast Day of the Cannibals" is the sixth standalone book in the American Novel series. At the cusp of the nineteenth century,... Read More

Damián Lobo is a fix-it man who’s unable to fix his own life. Middle-aged and just laid off from his dead end janitorial job, he wanders Madrid’s streets alone, imagining... Read More