"The Bear" is a dreamy dispatch from the end of the world. In Andrew Krivak’s palimpsest novel, the reassertion of nature over the bones of human civilization is a dignified and regretless process. The girl and her father may very well... Read More

Octavia E. Butler’s classic science fiction novel "Parable of the Sower" has been adapted into graphic novel format by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. In the bleak America of the 2020s, Lauren Oya Olamina, a young black woman, resides... Read More

Forty miles and a scenic ferry ride from Los Angeles lies Winter Island, whose residents can be transported back to the mainland in the case of an emergency. But it’s undecided what constitutes an emergency in Evangeline’s life: her... Read More

In its absorbing passion for the weird and weirded out, "What Goes Unseen" is an entertaining short story collection. The seven stories of Sean Minster’s "What Goes Unseen" are inspired by philosophical speculations, folklore, and tall... Read More

"Perfect iSland" is an experimental novel about the effects of political turmoil and personal tragedy on two ordinary Singaporeans. A couple struggles to stay together as a dictatorship threatens their country in Sanjay Perera’s novel... Read More

In "Water is Wider", two women form an unexpected bond and redefine the meaning of family. Marie Green McKeon’s "Water is Wider" is an intimate novel in which a young girl and a middle-aged woman come into each other’s lives and form... Read More

"Scotland before the Bomb" is a linguistically acrobatic novel that’s filled with zany wit and sheer randomness. There’re heaping helpings of dystopia and absurdity in M. J. Nicholls’s "Scotland before the Bomb", a sprawling... Read More

Krivda delivers an expansive, effusive, and fluidly stylish young adult work full of quirky energy and multigenerational appeal. Esther Krivda’s debut novel, Where the What If Roams and the Moon Is Louis Armstrong, is a special kind of... Read More