The best historical fiction breathes life into inanimate history. Protagonists fight wars, influence events, or survive horrifying disasters such as the bomb shelter tragedy in... Read More

Arvid Jansen is standing on the precipice of loss. He is losing his mother, who has recently been diagnosed with cancer. His marriage is also dying, as is Communism, which has... Read More

In Kim Dana Kupperman’s first book, the reader moves through what Kupperman terms “missives”—short meditations on life that traverse Kupperman’s biography and the... Read More

Belle Boggs grew up in the rural region of Virginia where her short stories are set, and one gets the feeling she hung around the grocery store, the boat launch, the Mattaponi... Read More

Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also... Read More

A book that foregrounds the importance of literature and language, Barnardo Atxaga’s "Obabakoak" is an achievement. Its methods are varied, and much is bound by its... Read More

In this fine new collection, Alyson Hagy reminds us that not all of America has been tamed. There are places still untouched, wild spaces dotted by tiny towns that haven’t... Read More

Once one has mastered the rules of an artistic discipline, it becomes possible for a gifted few to transcend them. In "The Adderall Diaries", author Stephen Elliott shatters the... Read More

At age sixty an unnamed female narrator recalls her coming of age in the isolated Danish village of Vrangbaek, remembering the imprint her brother and World War II left on her.... Read More

When her Uncle Don said she ought to write a book about him, Terese Svoboda was skeptical. A published poet and novelist, Svoboda knew how tricky the publishing world could be,... Read More

North Carolina’s coast is notorious in nautical lore for the number of ships and lives it has claimed. In this collection Hagy creates an equally grim coast where people come... Read More

Here are poems of a non-confessional tone, which consider the thoughts and emotions one may have, but may not always be willing to admit. Specifically, Rivard explores the... Read More