In David Musgrave’s fascinating novel "Lambda", a woman is enmeshed in conflicts between surveillance police, a synthetic person, and genetically human Lambdas. “A lambda function is a small anonymous function”: this computer... Read More

Lisa Moore’s novel "This Is How We Love" is an intimate and complex exploration of relationships—and of what it means to be entangled by the demands of love. Jules and her husband, Joe, are in Mexico when their phones ring,... Read More

A fortune teller issues a warning against three women with water-related names in Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, atmospheric novel "Watersong". Arai has been plagued by nightmares of drowning since childhood. A fortune teller’s dire... Read More

In Lina Wolff’s psychological thriller "Carnality", a writer arrives in Madrid and sets out to become a new person. The writer observes a married couple, Santiago and Miranda. He has dementia; she cares for him. Enchanted by their... Read More

An impulsive decision forces a clandestine order to take protective measures in Paraic O’Donnell’s surreal novel "The Maker of Swans". For as long as she can remember, Clara has lived at the manor house at the edge of the lake.... Read More

Set in a small Midwestern town, the novel "The Griefmaker" follows two men through their family trials. In George Gurley’s novel "The Griefmaker", a small town is polarized over plans for the local land. The Tenbrooks once owned a... Read More

"An Open Door" is a sensitive, intelligent historical novel focused on an unraveling marriage. A wife yearns for more substance in Anne Leigh Parrish’s "An Open Door", an insightful postwar novel about reconciling one’s sense of duty... Read More

Those fallible kings who are left standing witness the storied rise of their indomnitable queens in Mindi Meltz’s stunning fantasy novel The Queen’s Rain, the third book of the After Ever After series. King Sol is dead, and Sirenia... Read More