The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his... Read More

Epic in scope, the literary novel "Vu" is made up of woven-together historical tales used to deliver a thorough picture of the past. Using the framework of Arabian Nights, Kenneth Sinclair’s literary novel "Vu" is a history of the... Read More

The notion that all creatures have the capacity to do either harm or good is exemplified in the ecoconscious novel "Uplift". In Jessica Mann’s delicate allegorical novel "Uplift", a bird living in the Anthropocene comes of age and... Read More

Two souls from different earthly eras make their way toward eternal life together in the sweet novel "Hereafter". A man learns to navigate the afterlife in Jackson Eaton’s inventive novel "Hereafter". Thirty-year-old Benjamin is a... Read More

In Austyn Wohlers’s emotive novel "Hothouse Bloom", a woman steps away from human interactions to draw closer to nature, seeking healing. Anna, a painter, inherits her grandfather’s orchard. Although it is a foreign space to her, she... Read More

In Anbara Salam’s chilling novel "The Salvage", a marine archaeologist hunts down lost artifacts and ghosts in frigid waters. On the cusp of 1963, Marta performs a dive in remote Cairnroch to photograph local hero Captain James’s... Read More

"Meridian Rising" is Paul Burch’s inventive, entertaining historical novel about influential American singer and musician Jimmie Rodgers. Rodgers, with his distinctive “blues yodeling” style, influenced American blues, folk, and... Read More

Chronic pain and psychosomatic maladies jar a reporter in Samantha Kimmey’s brooding novel "The Extremities!" While Kim, a journalist, reports on a wildfire whose smoke permeates her coastal town, her hands throb with pain, limiting... Read More