With consuming literary passion, Janet Todd’s complex novel combines the past and the present together with the living and the dead. Fran is a widow who spent her life immersed in teaching, reading, and gardening. Her retirement (and... Read More

In Kwon Yeo-sun’s novel "Lemon", the unsolved murder of a high school student reverberates through the years. Hae-on was killed on a summer night in 2002. But for those left behind, this was just the beginning. After the initial shock... Read More

The life of a sheltered, neurodivergent girl is shattered by the Syrian civil war in Samar Yazbek’s novel "Planet of Clay". Rima’s world has always been limited to the apartment she shares with her mother and the library at the... Read More

In Mariana Dimópulos’s novel "Imminence", a woman fears the resurgence of her aimless, unhappy past. Though she’s been pressured to marry, have children, and behave in subservient, restrictive ways, the narrator doesn’t fit the... Read More

"In the Aftermath" is a masterful novel in which a man’s suicide leaves indelible marks on those he left behind. In Jane Ward’s novel "In the Aftermath", a man’s decision to take his own life has far-reaching effects on others.... Read More

The literary thriller Ophelia’s Room is visceral as it rollercoasters through middle America in the 1960s. In Michael Scott Garvin’s riveting novel Ophelia’s Room, infanticide in a small town fuels a soul search. In 1968, newlyweds... Read More

In the vibrant novel "All Good Quests", an impulsive, troubled man reckons with himself in the dramatic Alaskan wilderness. A freelance journalist tracks a tech industry billionaire who vanished in Joe Graber’s captivating adventure... Read More

"Ere the Cock Crows" is a thoughtful and affecting novel about the psychological impacts of Nazism. Two men wrestle with the complexities of morality, ethics, and duty in Jens Bjørneboe’s novel "Ere the Cock Crows". This first English... Read More