Perry’s work evokes the 1970s and celebrates the black culture of the time by centralizing it. Ev’one-yaY Eulasson’s Between Tomorrow and Yesterday: Tripping into Nowhere behind Nothing collects two plays, Sleep No More and Buy the... Read More

Through its fun vacation scenes, the novel becomes a critique of commonplace definitions of manhood and a proposal of a healthier, more relational, and realistic model. Eytan Uliel’s novel "Man Mission" is a satisfying chronicle of... Read More

This gritty young adult novel relates stories of adolescent challenges with authenticity. Idyllwild Eliot’s "Well Below Heaven" is a dark novel of sibling loyalty in a modern American family. Separated after one is sent to a remote... Read More

On a remote island off the coast of Scotland, two young girls navigate the judgement of their peers and the adults in their lives. Angela Readman’s "Something like Breathing" pairs nuanced observations with an atmospheric setting to... Read More

Decades after twentieth-century pharmaceuticals, urbanization, and television put traveling medicine shows out of business, Stephanie Allen’s "Tonic and Balm" resurrects one worthy of giving prescription drugs, industrialization, and... Read More

Pervasive in their record of vanishment, "The Middle Ground"’s surprising stories are linked by memory and loss. From ephemeral ice crystals to a sister who disappears, from the illusion of a movie career that never launches to a man... Read More

Patterned after the music of Schubert and described as a winterreise (German for “winter journey”), Sarah Léon’s "Wanderer" is a story all about unspoken feelings. Constructed around the relationship between two characters, the... Read More

A woman with a hidden past finds out her husband’s secrets are much more sinister than her own in Louise Voss’s twisting thriller "The Old You". Lynn Waites hasn’t always been Lynn Waites. At one time, she was an undercover... Read More