In theologian David Bentley Hart’s erudite short story collection, characters from Greek myths and literature have happenstance encounters with scholars and others. Hinting at both focused, rational ways of understanding the tangible... Read More

In Nicole M. Wolverton’s hair-raising thriller "A Misfortune of Lake Monsters", a teenager who fakes cryptid sightings confronts a monster from her nightmares. Lemon knows that Old Lucy isn’t real. Her family has been responsible for... Read More

Powerful and informative, Rena Steinzor’s "American Apocalypse" examines the history, motives, and momentum of six powerful groups aligned with the far right: corporations, the Tea Party, the Federalist Society, Fox News, white... Read More

Grief, lies, and death haunt Alice Dailey’s intense, intimate memoir "Mother of Stories". Dailey, a scholar and educator focused on the portrayal of death in historical literature, takes an unusual approach to writing about the effects... Read More

In Yasmin Zaher’s novel "The Coin", an immigrant navigates a bizarre sociopolitical web of glamour, obsession, filth, and tragedy. After both her parents are killed in a quotidian accident, a wealthy woman leaves Palestine and fitfully... Read More

Albert M. Camarillo’s warm memoir "Compton in My Soul" traces the source of his ethics and values to a Mexican immigrant barrio in Compton, California, where he learned to envision a better, brighter future. Despite all of the forces... Read More

A woman’s death brings grief, anger, and eventual peace to her loved ones in Taha Kehar’s novel "No Funeral for Nazia". In life, Nazia always insisted on going her own way. In death, she continues that tradition, leaving scandalous... Read More

An indefinable connection grows between a reluctant bodyguard and a yakuza’s daughter in Akira Otani’s novel "The Night of Baba Yaga". Shindo’s life is far from perfect, but when she is pressed into service as a chauffeur and... Read More