Orit Gidali’s poetry reflects segments of the contemporary Israeli psyche: awareness of fragility; a ferocious love for a complex inheritance; and a desire for the cessation of violence, as much for one side as for the other.... Read More

Gudgeon’s first poetry collection is a quirky valentine to irreverent readers, full of stark and pretty imagery, wry quips, and glorious bursts of vulgarity. Its foci include human foibles, Canadian eccentricities, and, always,... Read More

Somewhere between feelings of latent crisis and ennui, Maribeth Klein has a heart attack. Only she doesn’t realize that it is a heart attack—not until the emergency room attendants roll her into surgery and away from any sense that... Read More

Daring narrative styles and bursts of philosophy make the maybe-love story within "Two Green Otters" a fascinating trip. Buket Uzuner’s "Two Green Otters" is a story of love and ennui in which a mysterious protagonist struggles to... Read More

Stephanie Knipper’s novel treats autism spectrum disorders with dignity and compassion. The little girl at the center of Stephanie Knipper’s magical new novel, "The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin", is afflicted with the gift... Read More

Gold’s is a gripping take on the question of culpability related to mass deaths, an account in which few escape unscathed. Was he merely a cog in the machine, or a ruthless war criminal? Alan Gold’s "The Mechanic" follows a grieving... Read More

Autonomy’s is a world without easy answers, in which even salvation may come with a high human cost. In Jude Houghton’s brutal dystopian novel "Autonomy", humanity struggles to reassert itself after a near apocalyptic environmental... Read More

The human dramas in Carousel reward the voyeur’s eye. A Brussels neighborhood is the site of a grand experiment in human connection, in Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s"The Carousel of Desire", an inventively gratifying libertine comedy of... Read More