What happens when a suicide attempt fails? For Amelia, a psychiatric patient whose internal playlist and warring voices besiege her, it leads to three weeks on the ward. LJT’s fictionalized memoir "Practical Blasphemy" portrays bipolar... Read More

Matt Tompkins’s "Odsburg" is a unique kind of story—almost too novel to be considered a novel at all. Within it, self-taught researcher Wallace Jenkins-Ross sets out to document the town of Odsburg. The data he accumulates is... Read More

Robert Silverberg is an enduring voice in science fiction, and eighteen of his extraterrestrial-themed short stories and novellas are included in "Alien Archives", collected for a new generation looking for life beyond our stars. Some of... Read More

The real question posed by Terence Lester’s thoughtful, inspirational Christian book "I See You" is whether we are willing to see ourselves in the faces of the poor and forgotten. Lester’s work succeeds both at comforting the... Read More

Thorpe Moeckel’s essay collection "Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw" captures the beauty of the land near two rivers. The naturalist’s month-by-month account of the year he lived on the watershed of two North Carolina rivers, the Eno... Read More

California—land of golden dreams, proud melting pot, home to both the poor and the unimaginably rich—is an amalgam. Her complexities are captured in the essays of Freeman’s: California, which reaches across time and cultures to... Read More

"Stealing Cinderella" is a true story of love triumphing against the odds. A fairy tale comes to life in "Stealing Cinderella", the true story of how Mark Diehl’s love for a South Korean girl brought them into life-or-death conflict... Read More

In Shane Hinton’s post-apocalyptic novella "Radio Dark", a horrifying epidemic creeps upon the known world, ending its normalcy in a flash and rendering people static. The affected freeze in place—holding buckets of minnows, idling... Read More