The riffing, run-at-the-mouth quality of Sandra Simonds’s acerbic, indulgent work is exactly the style to broaden contemporary poetry’s appeal. The author of three previous collections, Simonds teaches English and Humanities at... Read More

Written as a first-person narrative in which “I” is all of humanity, "I, Humanity" explores human understandings of the universe. Jeffrey Bennett brilliantly condenses scientific discoveries throughout the ages into a brief history... Read More

This mesmerizing novel provides an incisive look at how the Bosnian War marked its survivors. In Cornflower Blue: A Case for Milena Lukin, Christian Schünemann and Jelena Volić reimagine a 2004 case of soldiers found dead inside a... Read More

An enthusiastic immigrant journeys to New York from Ireland in this vibrant period piece. Kristina McMorris’s novel "The Edge of Lost" is an engaging and suspenseful story about a young Irish immigrant looking for his real father in... Read More

This unflinching novel focuses on a sometime psychic who is forced to make difficult choices in her declining New Mexico hometown. In "The Staked Plains", Stefan Kiesbye portrays life in a declining New Mexican town through the eyes of a... Read More

Innovative writer Rich Ives has filled this, his newest book, with small, often tiny stories not unlike fables or dreams. Surreal happenings are recorded in spare prose that creates mental images akin to a Dalí painting: a man stares at... Read More

The arrival of a mysterious package inspires outspoken magazine editor Maggie Fiori to travel from her home in San Francisco to explore her family’s roots in the deep South, in "The Spy on the Tennessee Walker", book three of Linda Lee... Read More

This interesting, quick-moving adventure, set in an exotic locale, is a tale that keeps pages turning while mixing in a forgotten struggle for independence. In his quick-moving action-adventure novel, "Feeding the Tiger", JC Bourg shoots... Read More