"Of Gods, Humans and Beasts" is a research-based short story collection that modernizes legends to reflect on how religion fits and feeds modern society. With modern takes on theology, Arnold Wishman’s short story collection "Of Gods,... Read More

Replete with harrowing and laugh out loud accounts of misadventures at home and abroad, Suzanne Roberts’s "Bad Tourist" collects entertaining stories from around the world. Forget the glamour of collecting passport stamps and checking... Read More

Walking is such a humble activity. But for Glenn Berkenkamp, who grew up in a family of walkers, it’s also a rich and satisfying way to experience the wonders of the world while enhancing one’s health, fitness, mood, and creativity.... Read More

In Nina Berkhout’s tender novel, an opera singer falls in and out of love with both her craft and her spouse. After flopping on stage and damaging her vocal cords, Dawn is unable to find work as a singer. Coinciding with this tragedy,... Read More

A lost and audacious girl’s life story is reconstructed by the yearning child and grandchild she left behind in Sheila O’Connor’s poetic and precise semi-biographical novel, "Evidence of V". In 1935, a fifteen-year-old girl with... Read More

Sharon Harrigan’s "Half" mimics the triumphant defects of every family in its excavations of the peculiar remains of one. Narrated through the entwined perceptions and insights of identical twins, seldom heard by anyone other than the... Read More

Set in the wilds of rural Louisiana, "Stone Motel" brims with joy and pain. Morris Ardoin’s memoir is filled with snapshots of Cajun life, labyrinthine in their detail. Ardoin’s parents were blue-collar professionals who pooled their... Read More