"Moon of the Crusted Snow" is an isolated dystopia—a picture of what the end of the world might look like if you only ever lived at the edge of the world to begin with. When the power goes out in a northern Anishinaabe community, its... Read More

Noah Van Sciver reflects on his unusual upbringing and its effects on his life in the memoir "One Dirty Tree". The book’s title stems from the dilapidated, unkempt house Van Sciver’s family inhabited in the 1990s, whose address was... Read More

There are some who know many faces of the divine, but their knowledge is not necessarily desirable. Lavie Tidhar’s stunning science fiction adventure, "Unholy Land", moves between incarnations of Jewish being with alacrity, hunger, and... Read More

Lars Petter Sveen’s "Children of God", translated by Guy Puzey, collects stories featuring the New Testament’s marginal people. On the edge of the Roman empire, a place where everything is “so mixed up, so confusing … that it... Read More

Sara Kersting’s "Duty to Warn" is a finely tuned, suspenseful chase story. Psychologist David Malden has been working with a patient, Robert Percy, during his off hours. When Percy suddenly returns to rural Michigan, Malden fears the... Read More

Jonathan A. Taylor’s "The Rites of Passage" is marketed as the first in a series of novels; it also ably stands on its own. The story follows Jamie Goldberg from elementary school to college, as he grows from an abused boy into a... Read More

A young girl explores her past and present, one alien puppet at a time, in the children’s graphic novel Audrey’s Magic Nine: The Pencil and the Dream. The Pencil and the Dream jumps right into the action, continuing from the first... Read More

“How easily the fictions that a closed circle of people told each other could grow wings, take flight as if they were the truth,” declares “Deception,” the opening story in Anita Felicelli’s "Love Songs for a Lost Continent".... Read More