A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her... Read More

"The Diapause", Andrew Forbes’s speculative fiction treatise on a postplague world, is both a grim look at the dark side of survivalist psychosis and a heartbreaking love... Read More

Erica McKeen’s "Tear" is a hair-raising horror novel in which patriarchal dismissals of capable women fester across generations. During the long winter of her senior year of... Read More

In Anna Quon’s novel "Where the Silver River Ends", travels abroad lead to incredible self-discoveries. Joan, Canadian and of Chinese heritage, works as an English teacher in... Read More