A crisis exposes faultlines in a marriage in Cormac James’s whipsmart, lyrical novel "Trondheim". In the winter, Trondheim ought to be magical, but to Lil and Alba, who are in the grip of a family emergency, it reads as surreal.... Read More

In Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s expansive short story collection, some form of craving—either literal or metaphysical—factors into every person’s tale. A woman who craved olives as a child is forever cursed to flashback through the... Read More

The tales of E. Lily Yu’s brilliant, sparkling collection "Jewel Box" are fantastical, rich, and strange. They brim with imagination and insights and are diverse when it comes to geography and cultural details. Here, inanimate objects... Read More

Céline Keating’s lush, elegiac novel "The Stark Beauty of Last Things" limns Montauk in stunning prose and highlights loss, the transience of home, and the impermanence of human affections. Revolving around a prized land parcel... Read More

In the short stories of Lynn Levin’s wry, tragicomic collection "House Parties", some people struggle; others behave badly. In “Tell Us About Your Experience,” an office worker who’s sick of filling out satisfaction surveys... Read More

In Steven Heighton’s masterful posthumously published story collection "Instructions for the Drowning", men’s psyches are on display. These layered and intricate stories balloon out their denouéments until they are taut.... Read More

"Patterns of Orbit" is Chloe N. Clark’s inimitable collection of short stories and flash fiction, in which mysterious events abound. Herein, lakeside waves churn and tear up docks; a food scientist creates fruit that tastes of another... Read More

The twenty-three fabulist and fantasy stories collected in "This Side of the Divide" involve cowboys, the desert, coyotes, and arroyos; they remake old legends through uncommon lore in a gesture that counters cultural erasure. In the... Read More