Nathan Pettijohn’s record of an adventure in an RV celebrates open spaces through its easygoing narration. Nathan Pettijohn’s forthright travel narrative "Travels with Hafa" gathers linked, chronological sketches and essays about... Read More

In the tight, twisting thriller "The SCOTUS Affair", an affable detective pursues the truth about a far-reaching political conspiracy. In Stephen L. Bruneau’s thrilling novel "The SCOTUS Affair", Detective Dimase Augustin returns to... Read More

Three generations of men haunt the pages of Joseph Fasano’s novel about masculinity, fatherhood, and vengeance. The novel is set in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, where a father brings his nine-year-old son to the woods to... Read More

"A Korean War Odyssey" is both a moving tribute to a lost family member and a deft microhistory of the war that helped to preserve South Korea’s sovereignty. Part history lesson, part family story, Tom Gormley’s memoir "A Korean War... Read More

In Seb Doubinsky’s dystopian novel "The Invisible", politics are the only game in town. Georg is appointed as the commissioner of New Babylon, a large metropolis where politics, corporations, and journalism merge to form a monolithic... Read More

"JuJu" is a harrowing and hopeful novel, and Pettigrew’s writing is diamond sharp. A neighborhood in Buffalo endures the 1980s crack epidemic in Tamario Pettigrew’s "JuJu", a compelling young adult novel with adult interest. Teenage... Read More

Ben Barnz’s partner has a theory that there is a major generational shift for gay people every five years. This book, then, is a memoir from almost four zeitgeist changes ago. Beginning in the week of the 9/11 attacks, "We" is a taste... Read More

Mephisto’s Waltz, a collection of short fiction by the late Mexican author Sergio Pitol, creates a world of eloquent transience, shifting from Mexico to Asia then into Warsaw, Ibiza, Bukhara, Vienna, Venice, and Rome. Pitol’s mastery... Read More