In early thirteenth-century Japan, calligrapher Fujiwara no Teika chose one hundred poems of solitude, nature, aging, loneliness, beauty, and desire from one hundred poets of the previous five centuries—Hyakunin Isshu—a collection... Read More

A riveting story set in the hemispheric crossroads between Panama and Colombia, journalist Belén Fernández’s "The Darién Gap" reports on the inhospitable journey migrants and refuge seekers endure for a chance at a better life in... Read More

A woman discovers her new fiancé and his family are not what they seem in Audrey Wilson’s Midwestern thriller "The Ever End". Following her mother’s death, Margo represses her grief with an engagement to Sam, her boyfriend of six... Read More

In "Law and Order Leviathan", David Garland advocates for a holistic approach to understanding and fixing American penal policy. Garland begins his measured and stinging analysis of American penal policy with an overview of the police... Read More

An inestimable novel of ideas, Michael Lentz’s monumental book "Schattenfroh" follows the consciousness of a trapped man as he thinks through his existence, his relationship to his father, and centuries of German culture. “One calls... Read More

In K. L. Denman’s engrossing Hi-Lo novel "Trance", a perfectionist teenager loses control. Kira has a tight handle on her life and on her best friend Brigid’s psychic powers. When a horrible accident leaves Brigid’s client dead,... Read More

In Jan Fields’s stirring horror novel "The World Inside", a teenager discovers that her comatose aunt could trap ghosts in paintings. Tamika could be spending the summer in Paris with her best friends, but her mother dragged her to... Read More

In Maya Arad’s epistolary novel "Happy New Years", an Israeli immigrant writes annual Rosh Hashanah letters to her friends back home, masking the reality of her life in the US. From 1966 to 2016, Leah writes to women from her... Read More