In Andrew Miller’s historical novel The Slowworm’s Song, a British family reckons with their patriarch’s military involvement in Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Though raised as a Quaker, Stephen joined the British army when he was... Read More

The unflinching thriller "Fit for Duty" reveals the brutalities and barbarities of war via a career military psychiatrist who faces new scrutiny. In K. A. Kron’s thriller "Fit for Duty", an army psychiatrist’s decision to send a... Read More

Members of a Tahitian family cannot escape one another in Titaua Peu’s novel "Pina". Nine-year-old Pina’s life, already darkened by abuse and poverty, becomes even harsher when an accident turns her drunken father Auguste into a... Read More

In David Musgrave’s fascinating novel "Lambda", a woman is enmeshed in conflicts between surveillance police, a synthetic person, and genetically human Lambdas. “A lambda function is a small anonymous function”: this computer... Read More

Propelled by an impulse to look back and take stock, the prose poems of David Trinidad’s intimate "Digging to Wonderland" twin memory and nostalgia. Conversational and confessional, the book has the tone of diary entries as it catalogs... Read More

Midwestern magic abounds in Scott Russell Sanders’s fairy tale short story collection "Small Marvels". In Limestone, Indiana, Gordon Mills is a jack of all trades whose big family lives in a dilapidated house that only remains standing... Read More

In her lyrical memoir, L. M. Browning “shatters the window of the white picket dream,” making her way West to reclaim herself. Moody black-and-white photographs accompany the book’s poems, adding resonance to claims of freedom or... Read More

From varied corners of the shrinking Amazon, Fábio Zuker’s essays report on perils to humans and wildlife, surveying Brazilian history, geography, and culture and documenting a raft of environmental problems that have been exacerbated... Read More