A prodigal son comes home in the wake of tragedy in Jabbour Douaihy’s compelling novel "The King of India". After several years and a storied life abroad, Zakariya returns to Lebanon. Surrounded by an air of melancholy, he interacts... Read More

A fortune teller issues a warning against three women with water-related names in Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, atmospheric novel "Watersong". Arai has been plagued by nightmares of drowning since childhood. A fortune teller’s dire... Read More

In Becky Manawatu’s novel Auē, a Māori family comes to grips with its troubled past. After his parents drown and he survives, Taukiri only has his little brother, Ari. But Taukiri is traumatized by the event, and he leaves Ari with... Read More

"Sexual Revolution" is Laurie Penny’s radical work of literary journalism; it concerns current sociopolitical climates and the ways that feminism can save the world. Penny takes a deep look at the powers that try to keep society under... Read More

Richard Butner’s collection of speculative short stories "The Adventurists" includes puppeteers, a decades-old cat, and homicidal servants who operate in alternate realities. Grounded by concrete pop culture details, each strange... Read More

"How Reasonable Americans Could Support Trump" is a good starting point for anyone who wishes to have honest conversations with acquaintances across the political aisle. Brian Rees’s perspective-driven political science book "How... Read More

In Joan Haig’s urban fantasy for young readers, three children help a creature fulfill a promise made long ago. Lal Patel is homesick for India. His father relocated their family to Scotland and installed them in an old house whose... Read More

In her debut novel-in-stories, "I Know You Love Me, Too", Amy Neswald threads the relationship between two sisters through fourteen linked stories to create a genre-bending experience. The half sisters, eight years apart in age, must... Read More