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

Carolyn Kirby’s "The Conviction of Cora Burns" finds twenty-year-old Cora Burns desperate to discover what’s hidden in her memory’s shadows. It’s 1885, and she’s a... Read More

Its characters trample through lands on the brink of madness in search of something certain; its images are violent, heartbreaking, and starkly real. Morris Collins’s "Horse... Read More

Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s stories are brooding, precise, and painful indictments of patriarchal cultures. They primarily follow women of color through harsh personal and... Read More

"How to Set Yourself on Fire" is a brooding tale of memory, emotional malaise, grief, and voyeurism. Languorous, thirty-five-year old Sheila steals her dead grandmother’s shoe... Read More

"Thirty-Seven" is uncomfortable, disturbing, and impossible to put down. The surviving member of an infamous cult finds himself drawn back into the life in the uneasy but... Read More

"Jamestown, Alaska" is fast-paced and effective, blending the absurd and the cruelly twisted aspects of the committee’s plan. In Frank Turner Hollon’s "Jamestown, Alaska", a... Read More

Adrenalin-laced and with a strong sense of the absurd, this small-town Canadian novel explores situations both dark and amoral. Andrew F. Sullivan’s "Waste" takes place in a... Read More

Memory, mental illness, and modern art are central themes in this clever literary puzzle. “There are so many ways to die, and even more ways to imagine it.” Carmiel... Read More

Busman makes her gritty characters’ experiences specific yet universal, to expose the difficulties of lower-class women. Uniquely blending first-, second-, and third-person... Read More