Riffing on the collisions between tradition and modernity, Elaine Chiew’s winsome, playful, and sometimes wistful short story collection "The Heartsick Diaspora" hopscotches across continents and time periods, focusing on Malaysians at... Read More

History has little to say about Georgie Hyde-Lees, the literary maven who crossed paths with Britain’s brightest artists and eventually became the wife (and muse) of poet William Butler Yeats. Alice Miller’s diverting "More Miracle... Read More

Powered by intense imagery and jolts of frank sexuality, Shruti Swamy’s "A House Is a Body" blurs the line between fantastical and naturalistic storytelling with its tales of love, loss, and life lived across cultures. “Blindness”... Read More

Trials and tragedies can spur artists to great heights, but they can also undermine everything they’ve worked for. Such is the weighty conundrum behind Eoin Lane’s "Beyond the Horizon", about six decades of an artist’s life on the... Read More

Life-changing moments lost, reimagined, and regained form the backbone of John Elizabeth Stintzi’s meditative, lyrical "Vanishing Monuments". Alani is a nonbinary, Minneapolis-based art professor who is forced to return to their... Read More

"Urban Playground" is an entertaining introduction to San Francisco thanks to the charm, sense of wonder, and joy of its participants. In "Urban Playground", San Francisco attorney and journalist Katie Burke delves into the hopes and... Read More

An imaginative thriller, "The Water Column" suggests more rousing adventures to come. Aran Jane’s "The Water Column" plunges into a mystery from the get-go. Wolf Holzinger appears in a student’s Chicago high-rise apartment seemingly... Read More

Tom Mattson’s "The Other Worlds" demonstrates the central, enduring tenet of travel: we’re all connected. Traveler and blogger Tom Mattson has seen a thing or two. "The Other Worlds" is a colorful tour through the far-flung places... Read More