An artistic novel, "Blue Mountain Rose" explores new love and new life stages against the backdrop of Shakespearean productions. In Julie Hammonds’s engaging novel "Blue Mountain Rose", the members of an Arizona Shakespeare company... Read More

"The Moth" is a wry noir novel in which an everyman with a complicated past navigates criminality and its consequences in Los Angeles. A pawnbroker on the criminal fringes encounters trouble in Scott Archer Jones’s entertaining novel... Read More

The stories within "Memory Plays" are about how people reconcile truth and memory through romances, grief, the creative process, and even miracles. In Stephen Evans’s distinctive short story collection "Memory Plays", four sets of... Read More

A girl comes of age in a time of war, holding on to memories of her city as it once existed, in the poignant historical novel "We Walked On". Lebanon’s civil war unites a teacher and student in Thérèse Soukar Chehade’s illuminating... Read More

An ambitious reconstruction of a hidden personal life, "Gabriële" is Anne and Claire Berest’s biographical novel about their formidable great-grandmother. At twenty-seven, Gabriële Buffet had carved out an unusual life—studying... Read More

Saskia Nislow’s thrilling and fast-paced horror novel "Root Rot" is about family dysfunction and the inescapable reality of returning to the earth after death. The Crybaby, the Liar, and the One Who Runs Away explore their... Read More

Across more than a century, three women connected by a narrative persist beyond the brokenness of their worlds in "A Line You Have Traced", Roisin Dunnett’s stunning speculative novel. At the end of World War I, brilliant Bea assists... Read More

Familiar yet otherworldly, Errick Nunnally’s novel "The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile" follows a Black boy growing up in 1970s Boston. Approaching his teenage years, Sean listens to his mother Sojourner’s stories about... Read More