A struggling teacher is immersed in profound philosophical mysteries in the introspective novel "Café Philosophy". In M. A. Alsadah’s musing novel "Café Philosophy", a precocious teacher converses with unassuming strangers at a local... Read More

A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her idyllic childhood, wherein her father was an architect. While... Read More

Anna Nerkagi’s subtle but powerful novel "White Moss" captures generational shifts among Siberia’s indigenous Nenets people. Among the Nenets, nomadic reindeer herders in the polar tundra, little is easy. Traditions clash with the... Read More

Concerned with the transformation of rural communities under the pressures of regeneration, "Benchland" is a revealing and atmospheric novel. Horatio R. Potter’s compelling novel "Benchland" depicts life in rural Montana. Abe is a... Read More

Part maternal and filial lament, part horror story, Kirsten Kaschock’s eerie, enrapturing novel follows a biological experiment gone wrong. In a Pennsylvania barn, grief-driven Agnes tinkers with crow DNA, hoping to nurture a specimen... Read More

A. Natasha Joukovsky’s delicious, multilayered novel "Medium Rare" muses on contemporary American culture through an average man’s foray to unimagined heights. Phil, a discontented lobbyist of middling employment, happens to predict... Read More

Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More

Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel "Kill Dick" parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of... Read More