Play a game of tag, catch fireflies, or hunt for frogs and worms in the prickly grass: everything holds a touch of magic during those idyllic twilight hours. A blend of painting and collage art captures the sky and setting sun awash in... Read More

In Ameera Patel’s novel "Outside the Lines", narcissism and addiction blur the lines of reality. Drug dealers kidnap Cathleen, but her distracted, middle-class family fails to notice her disappearance. Meanwhile, the family’s... Read More

Based on the early life of Bob Dylan, Baron Wormser’s "Songs from a Voice" is a meditation on the nature of poetry and identity in the evolving culture of America’s mid-twentieth century. Abe grows up in lower middle class Jewish... Read More

Timothy S. Miller’s "City of Hate" is a dark thriller featuring overlapping conspiracies. Hal is a recovering alcoholic whose viewpoint is melancholic. His best friend, Lemon, is a conspiracy theorist who sees nefarious plots lurking... Read More

In Margo Orlando Littell’s quiet, compelling novel, "The Distance from Four Points", a woman finds herself reeling from grief and a reversal of fortune. When Robin’s husband, Ray, is killed in a kayaking accident, he leaves behind a... Read More

Specificity has a way of creating potency, and in Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s essay collection "A Fish Growing Lungs", the power of a well-chosen detail is apparent. Intertwining anecdotes and diaristic, poetic reflections are used to... Read More

In David Quantick’s horror comedy "Night Train", a woman wakes on a train with no idea how she got there—or, worse: who she is. As she explores her surroundings, the woman encounters a room full of dead bodies; the only other living... Read More

Inès Bayard’s novel This Little Family, translated from French, is about the devastating aftermath of a rape. Raised in a loving household outside of Paris, Marie moves into the city as an adult. She works, dines out, and promenades... Read More