A winking pirate with a puffed-out chest and a tendency toward exaggeration leads this story about an ample treasure that has maybe been misplaced. He initiates a dig on his island, and is baffled to come up without the chest of rubies... Read More

In "From Gay to Z", a compendium of queer culture more akin to a kiki than an encyclopedia, Justin Elizabeth Sayre serves up a blend of earnest information and loving snark. A humorist rather than a historian or social scientist, Sayre... Read More

Mick Herron’s satirical thriller "Bad Actors" follows a singular band of British intelligence agents as they investigate the disappearance of a Russian spy. As a Russian operative seeks to take down the corrupt assistant to the British... Read More

Jacqueline Harpman’s "I Who Have Never Known Men" is a brilliant, spare science fiction novel in which a curious girl asks what remains after everything has been stripped away. In the beginning, the girl is caged with thirty-nine women... Read More

María Sánchez’s memoir concerns the inequalities that women face in the Spanish countryside, even as rural communities fade away. Sánchez works in a field that’s dominated by men: just 2.2% of field veterinarians in Spain are... Read More

Set in the 1970s, Brian Lebeau’s psychological thriller "A Disturbing Nature" follows a serial killer’s trail of bodies in New England. Francis Palmer, a chief investigator with the FBI, solves mass murder cases. He discovered... Read More

In Estela González’s novel "Arribada", a terrible loss forces a Mexican family to reevaluate their lives. Mariana is her family’s great hope. She’s sent abroad to attend school and becomes a concert pianist. But after two family... Read More

Frederic Tuten dares to question the nature of art and life in the short stories of "The Bar at Twilight", several of which were written to accompany gallery exhibitions. In “Winter, 1965,” an aspiring writer is disappointed to find... Read More