In Eoghan Walls’s wry, poignant historical novel "Field Notes from an Extinction", a naturalist’s research is disrupted by the arrival of a feral child. In 1847, Ignatius receives a royal commission to study the Great Auk. He... Read More

A search for a stolen painting leads to an unexpected romantic connection in the absorbing novel "Pictures of My Desire". Caroline Goldberg Igra’s thrilling novel "Pictures of My Desire" explores the rarefied art world through a... Read More

Reflecting on the inescapablity of generational growing pains, a fatherless father works to connect with his adolescent son in Kevin Moffett’s tender, rousing novel "Only Son". Told in triptych form, the novel begins at the fracture... Read More

In its form and shifting subjects, the imaginative speculative novel "The Tesseract" plays with the power of words and the limits of language. Karima Vargas Bushnell’s reality-bending speculative novel "The Tesseract" moves through... Read More

Pronouncing tidy morals concerning meaningful work, "Dollartorium" is a convivial satirical novel. In Ron Pullins’s freewheeling satirical novel "Dollartorium", an entrepreneur is lured by the prospect of wealth. Ralph owns the Corny... Read More

A half-submerged island is the setting of a love story “not meant for land” in "When Water Became Blue", Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s sweetly wanton novel about women’s desire. Brought to shore by her partner and child, Anaïs, a... Read More

The world transforms around a strange, charismatic girl who was trained to keep her eyes on the skies in the bizarre, wondrous novel "The High Heaven". Orphaned when the cult she was raised in went out to meet alien angels and instead... Read More

Hearkening back to classics in style, "Reunions" is a weighty literary novel about revealing encounters with old friends. In David Adams Cleveland’s verbose literary novel "Reunions", former classmates see a familiar face at their... Read More