"Little Gold" is a step back in time, into a rich world with complex characters. Thick with British vernacular and a youthful voice, "Little Gold"’s tone immediately transports readers to Brighton, 1982. With its strong writing, it is... Read More

"Near Haven" takes on the apocalypse with literary flair and shining prose. In "Near Haven", by Matthew Stephen Sirois, a looming apocalypse puts life into perspective. This is a contemplative and violently engaging character study. In... Read More

Sympathy is created for these disparate and complex characters in a way that is worth savoring. Set in the late 1990s, Heather Bell Adams’s Marantha Road takes a seemingly standard setup of Southern poverty literature and burnishes it... Read More

Burning Man, festival beyond words in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, attracts 70,000 utopians for a weeklong experiment in barter, selfless giving, artistic self-expression, and unchecked revelry. But don’t get the wrong idea. The event... Read More

In this entertaining book, each child has their own highly relatable reason for wanting to find Bigfoot. Jessica Lee Anderson’s "Uncertain Summer" is a fun juvenile adventure full of great lessons. Everdil Jackson knows that her family... Read More

This offbeat collection of stories provides insights into the process of translation. Véronique Côté and Steve Gagnon’s "I Never Talk About It" is an intriguing and ambitious collection made up of thirty-seven short stories in the... Read More

This memoir about learning to value yourself despite social expectations is doused in wit and self-reflection. Rhonda Eason’s book is the honest story of how one black woman conquered an insurmountable challenge: her hair. After... Read More

Blackburn’s prose is simply exquisite—every word weighty, every sentence stripped of excess, with all remaining wonderfully descriptive. Venita Blackburn makes an indelible impression with her first collection of short stories,... Read More