Death and desire take many forms in Suzanne Roberts’s essay collection "Animal Bodies". Across three sections, two concepts rise to the fore: grief and discovery. In the... Read More

In the best of poetry—unmistakably present and resonant to the reader—we find the physical embodiment of wordcraft: sound, rhythm, music. What Roy Scheele creates on the... Read More

Bridging Russia, New York City, and Virginia, the short stories of Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry’s What Isn’t Remembered are filled with uneasy relationships that are doomed by... Read More

Replete with harrowing and laugh out loud accounts of misadventures at home and abroad, Suzanne Roberts’s "Bad Tourist" collects entertaining stories from around the world.... Read More

Robin Hemley’s erudite essay collection "Borderline Citizen" probes the meaning of nationality. Profiling enclaves and exclaves, overseas territories, and displaced people,... Read More

Precise in the language of everyday, rich in wisdom and maturity, Joyce Sutphen’s newest collection, her eighth, speaks to her comfort with farm life, travel, aging, the... Read More

From Bigfoot to Area 51 to the Jersey Devil, the United States boasts plenty of legendary unsolved mysteries, and the Midwest has had its share of odd occurrences. B. J. Hollars... Read More

Heady, challenging, and thought-provoking, the essays in "This Fish Is Fowl" traverse international and cultural boundaries. Author Xu Xi is of Chinese descent and originally... Read More

With the importance of a free press and the rule of law rightly in the national conversation, Dan Bernstein’s "Justice in Plain Sight" is a timely release, detailing a... Read More

Thomas Jefferson thought of farmers as the nation’s MVPs. He called them “the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous” of our citizens. But Jefferson... Read More

Luisa Muradyan comes to America from Ukraine as a child. She grows up to study poetry at the doctorate level; meanwhile, her poems are published in Paris-American, Blackbird,... Read More

Moving from the recent past into the future, Sara Batkie’s short story collection "Better Times" traverses lives that are subtly or drastically twisted away from what is... Read More