Amber Dawn’s "Sodom Road Exit" combines supernatural erotic tension with the power of love, community, and acceptance, all set against former funhouse glory. The past meets... Read More

In Michelle de Kretser’s "The Life to Come", lives intersect, entwine, or separate within distinct yet unified passages. The general nexus being Australia, backdrops shift... Read More

Parts per Million veers back to the early 2000s, as America somberly moves into a new millennium already shadowed by 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Three activists have banded... Read More

Pearls on a Branch: Tales from the Arab World Told by Women is a collection of thirty stories curated by Najla Khoury, who spent years compiling, polishing, and editing these... Read More

Leslie Pietrzyk’s haunting "Silver Girl" begins in 1980, with a nameless narrator starting her freshman year at a prestigious Chicago-area university. The narrator escaped her... Read More

All the Women of My Family Sing is a rousing compilation by sixty-nine women of color, featuring essays that address personal and collective identity, history, place,... Read More

Flor Edwards’s "Apocalypse Child" is an engrossing account of growing up within the strangely insular Children of God cult. Followers of the cult, founded in the late 1960s by... Read More

In Kate Braverman’s "A Good Day for Seppuku", there are few joyous moments or emotional breakthroughs. Characters keep to themselves, drift apart, or abandon each other, and... Read More

Karen Karbo’s "In Praise of Difficult Women" collects twenty-nine biographical profiles of women who have pushed back, broken the mold, or simply lived on their own terms. The... Read More

Katie Cortese’s Make Way for Her and Other Stories offers enticing glimpses of curiously compact, womencentric fictional universes, generally focused on girls, teenagers,... Read More

Winifred Conkling’s "Votes for Women!" details the arduous struggle for women’s suffrage in America with compelling biographical profiles of some of the movement’s key... Read More

Eun’s fiction contrasts familial or societal obligations with an undertow of erratic impulse or emotion. Nobody Checks the Time When They’re Happy, a collection of short... Read More