A young lawyer of shifting identities is presented with a transformative case in Judith McCormack’s devastating, poetic novel "The Singing Forest". Even before WWII began in earnest, Belarusian citizens disappeared into the Minsk... Read More

In the future-set novel "Into Your Blues", people from two generations struggle for meaning and fulfillment. In Charlie Moodie’s fresh and original novel "Into Your Blues", middle-aged men’s lives are upended by job losses. In the... Read More

The 2014 Crimean war becomes the backdrop of a more personal drama in Kalani Pickhart’s novel "I Will Die in a Foreign Land". In late 2013, Ukraine explodes into political violence, which is made worse when Russia annexes the Crimean... Read More

"This Blood Means Life" is a resplendent and intoxicating fairy tale that mixes pagan magic and the feminine divine into stories we only think we know. Four fairy tales are infused with new life in Mindi Meltz’s sensual, affecting... Read More

Inventive scenarios make the short stories collected in "Urban Disturbances" disturbing, disarming, and worthwhile. Bruce McDougall probes the undersides of city and suburban life in his short story collection "Urban Disturbances". These... Read More

"Midland" is a resounding, redemptive novel about healing from a tragedy. In Ross Breithaupt’s measured novel "Midland", a young man works to heal following his brother’s suicide. In the 1980s, ten years after his brother jumped to... Read More

"Where Do They Bury the Dead" is a humane historical novel set during a dark period in Haiti. In Joseph P. Policape’s novel "Where Do They Bury the Dead", a Haitian family becomes embroiled in a countrywide conspiracy. The Dubois... Read More

A spirited young spiritualist rejects confinement in Victoria Mas’s electrifying historical novel The Mad Women’s Ball. At the end of the nineteenth century, otherwise fast-modernizing France still considers anomalous women to be an... Read More