In "Somewhere West of Lonely", Steve Raymer reports on a world most of us will never see: the varied, complicated, and quixotic terrain of his own life as a National Geographic photojournalist. Beginning in the mid-1970s and ending in... Read More

Laura Wolfson worked, traveled, and eventually married in the Soviet Union toward the end of the Cold War. Despite being fluent in Russian, she struggled to understand her Russian spouse’s insistence that having children would require... Read More

This collection trawls the underbelly of mysteries and dreams to transport potential merrymakers to a world where every choice is rendered in dark absolutes. Evoking Victorian traditions around the holiday ghost story, Orion... Read More

When Harvey Beam discovered his talent for talk radio, he poured himself into work, launching himself from remote Shorton to glittering Sydney to become a national star. But his star is waning, and all he left behind isn’t waiting... Read More

Ben Gwin’s complex debut novel is based around a fictional reality television sensation, "Clean Time", that has catapulted various interested parties—from pharmaceutical corporations to rehab centers—to unimaginable wealth. For a... Read More

One April, a notice shows up in publications across Canada: “A free retreat for artists, writers, thinkers! … Also learn how to keep bees!” Ten artists respond, gathering at a rural, isolated farm. As members of the colony weather... Read More

"Welcome to Lagos", Chibundu Onuzo’s US debut, follows an unlikely group of Nigerians bound together by circumstance. As their lives converge, five travelers from the Niger Delta are thrown together with two of Nigeria’s privileged... Read More

Fiadhnait Moser’s coming-of-age novel, "The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel", follows its heroine as she rounds the first corner of adolescence and finds very adult problems waiting. As Floralie questions who her family members are—as... Read More