Nick Rees Gardner’s scathing short story collection captures lives of not-so-quiet desperation in the Rust Belt. These linked stories vivify Westinghouse, Ohio, an imaginary depressed Midwestern town wherein some people’s only... Read More

In Suzanne Kamata’s novel "Cinnamon Beach", a man’s death brings together the grieving women in his family for a summer of self-reflection and discovery. To spread the final portion of Ted’s ashes, his family gathers along the... Read More

Atsuhiro Yoshida’s novel "Goodnight Tokyo" delves into the nighttime activities of a disparate group of Tokyoites. For her latest assignment as a prop procurer for film sets, Mitsuki must secure loquats off-season. Enlisting Matsui’s... Read More

Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir "Another North" cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree winter temperatures, molded and... Read More

Set in 1897, Norman Lock’s riveting historical novel "The Caricaturist" focuses on Oliver, a Philadelphia native and a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Uninspired by the academy’s faculty of “myopic old men,”... Read More

A lighthouse and its storied secrets feature in Amanda Cox’s engrossing novel "Between the Sound and Sea", in which a woman helms a restoration project and meets a widower who longs for atonement. Joey was an event planner in Copper... Read More

In theologian David Bentley Hart’s erudite short story collection, characters from Greek myths and literature have happenstance encounters with scholars and others. Hinting at both focused, rational ways of understanding the tangible... Read More

Emotive illustrations track the transformation of a girl as she moves through her fear and finds resolve. Tali longs to tumble and soar like the other children at gymnastics or the dojo, but fear always stops her from trying. Through a... Read More