The indomitable Jake Travis returns for another high-stakes investigation in "A Beautiful Voice". Jake Travis is a hero, but he’d protest that designation. He’s—mostly—left his former military and intelligence life behind. He... Read More

Drawing inspiration from the most existentially bored quarters of the sweater-set crowd, the short stories of Virginia Pye’s "Shelf Life of Happiness" are unsettling, sighing laments. They organize church fundraisers and clean their... Read More

Thirteen-year-old Silke is the heroine of her own story—a girl who knows that you “never, ever let a dragon handle diplomacy,” since a dragon’s idea of diplomacy is to point out that dragons don’t eat humans…anymore. She... Read More

Mardi McConnochie’s middle grade, cli-fi dystopia is a wild adventure across a wildly different Earth. In the world before the flood, human beings tried to correct their own folly by adding to it, hoping to counteract a climate... Read More

Piercing and compact, Charles Quimper’s novella "In Every Wave" follows a grief-consumed father through a vortex of regret and fragmented fantasies. Here, sorrow is an ocean, and lost possibilities lurk behind every swell. Spectral... Read More

Ethereal and surreal, Tom Chambers’s photomontages “tell unfinished stories” about childhoods in flux, gasping ecologies, and unfinished fantasies. From his childhood encounters with the Wyeths and a tour in Vietnam, Chambers moved... Read More

"Moon of the Crusted Snow" is an isolated dystopia—a picture of what the end of the world might look like if you only ever lived at the edge of the world to begin with. When the power goes out in a northern Anishinaabe community, its... Read More

There are some who know many faces of the divine, but their knowledge is not necessarily desirable. Lavie Tidhar’s stunning science fiction adventure, "Unholy Land", moves between incarnations of Jewish being with alacrity, hunger, and... Read More