In Gary Robinson’s series-continuing novel "Billy Buckhorn and the Rise of the Night Seers", a Cherokee teenager’s life takes a surprising turn thanks to a newcomer who brings news of an ancient tribal prophecy. Gifted with unique... Read More
"Particles in the Air" is a slow-burn medical thriller in which a capable but troubled doctor tries to stop a horrific pandemic. In Jenna Podjasek’s thriller "Particles in the Air", a medical investigator discovers a deadly and... Read More
Grounded in close studies of novels, academic theory, and various stage and screen adaptations, this incisive play vivifies the lives and works of literary greats. Trenchant and insightful, S.C. Hays’s stage play "Closer (Than You... Read More
In the mountains of Colorado, a newcomer witnesses as secrets and bodies accumulate in the satisfying mystery novel "The Last Temptation". A mystery unfolds in a small Colorado town in Amy O. Lewis’s thriller "The Last Temptation", the... Read More
In Mary Clearman Blew’s novel "Think of Horses", a disheartened, middle-aged romance novelist returns to her native Montana to reevaluate her life choices. It’s summer in Sun Creek, the mountainous ranching country that skilled horse... Read More
Amalie Jahn’s touching novel "Phoebe Unfired" pays tribute to all those who struggle with mental health through its strong heroine. Though it seems that everyone else has moved on from the Covid-19 pandemic, it left Phoebe with... Read More
The lives of two women become intertwined across generations in Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s historical novel "Frieda’s Song". In 1935, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a Jewish psychoanalyst, leaves Nazi Germany for the United States, where she... Read More
When a hit-and-run kills a South Carolina teenager who was bicycling after dark, the fallout leads a community to ruminate. Jon Sealy’s "The Merciful" is a searing novel in which public judgments and personal reckonings spiral from a... Read More