When a hit-and-run kills a South Carolina teenager who was bicycling after dark, the fallout leads a community to ruminate. Jon Sealy’s "The Merciful" is a searing novel in which public judgments and personal reckonings spiral from a... Read More

Taut and terse, this noir novel is executed to perfection. Michael Pronko’s "Tokyo Traffic" is a hard-boiled murder mystery featuring the tough but lovable Detective Hiroshi Shimizu. At the dark novel’s heart is Sukanya, a Bangkok... Read More

"Munching on the Sun" encapsulates what it is like to have big questions about life while you’re falling in love and growing up. Mark Paul Oleksiw’s realistic coming-of-age novel "Munching on the Sun" focuses on an emotional young... Read More

Judy Mundle was astounded when a Japanese American work colleague—rendered here as Janet Hayashi—confided that she had been a block manager at an American internment camp during World War II. In this poignant memoir, she reveals the... Read More