"The Boy from the Forge" is a skillfully written, nostalgic coming-of-age story. Matt Brandt’s "The Boy from the Forge" is a sympathetic coming-of-age novel in which a young man makes choices that will shape him for decades to come.... Read More

The book shatters the mirror of traditional literary models, and holds the cold, sharp shards, shining, up to the light. Literary fireworks abound in Peter Quinones’s "Postmodern Deconstruction Madhouse", a cosmopolitan collection of... Read More

"The Things We Do" is much more than a murder mystery; it’s an examination of what constitutes freedom and confinement. Kay Pfaltz’s unconventional murder mystery "The Things We Do" insightfully explores the motives behind murder and... Read More

"Rubik" is a novel of ghosts—those of memory, technology, relationships, emotion, and bodies—all of them permanently impermanent. Released into these terrains, characters disappear and reappear in strange ways or not at all, the... Read More

The Biographies of Ordinary People: Volume 2 is a satisfying family saga about growing up and coming into one’s own. Nicole Dieker’s The Biographies of Ordinary People, Vol. 2: 2004–2016 brings back the Gruber girls as they grow... Read More

A compelling family drama resonant with feminist and queer issues, Martha K. Davis’s "Scissors, Paper, Stone" neatly captures the grit of intimacy as relationships expand and contract. “We had been walking for over an hour before I... Read More

In "Southernmost", Silas House’s story of destruction, faith, and accountability, the Cumberland River is about to break one man’s whole world, unmooring him from his small Tennessee town and all he once thought stable. Asher Sharp... Read More

Amber Dawn’s "Sodom Road Exit" combines supernatural erotic tension with the power of love, community, and acceptance, all set against former funhouse glory. The past meets the present with a searing intensity against the backdrop of a... Read More