A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel "The Shipikisha Club". After shooting her husband in self-defense, Sali faces the public... Read More

What to make of this daily plate?: divorced mother of two sons (one white, one Black). This life lot?: estranged from her own mother. This dealt hand?: caring for a partner... 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... Read More

Generations whose stories are informed by the Holocaust converge at a sanitarium by the sea in Morris Collins’s surrealistic, affecting novel "The Tavern at the End of... Read More

For the poet, no skill is more of service than observation—what is there, what once was and will be, where love left a mark. In this regard, Robert Fanning looks up to very... Read More

Centered by radiant parent-child relationships, Sarah Yahm’s exquisite novel "Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation" is about chronic illness and defiant love. Louise and Leon meet... Read More

Jessie van Eerden’s glittering essay collection Yoke & Feather is a work of exquisite longing marked by keen reflections on biblical tales. Beginning after van Eerden’s... Read More

In Afabwaje Kurian’s novel "Before the Mango Ripens", Nigerians fight against white American missionaries for control over their country’s future. “Transition [is] afoot... Read More

Lance Olsen explores the past and potential future of human interaction in his spellbinding novel "Skin Elegies". The twentieth century was filled with grand and intimate... Read More

Beautiful and tragic, RE Katz’s novel "And Then the Gray Heaven" embodies “the whole blessed void: a vast field of care” as it recounts the gradual process of laying the... Read More

Distance, psychological and physical, runs through Ethel Rohan’s short story collection In The Event of Contact. Here, contact, or the lack thereof, signals loss, emptiness,... Read More

In Tina May Hall’s intoxicating "The Snow Collectors", a mournful mystery unfolds in an icy town, at the juncture where the past meets modernity. Not long ago, Henna lost her... Read More