In Austyn Wohlers’s emotive novel "Hothouse Bloom", a woman steps away from human interactions to draw closer to nature, seeking healing. Anna, a painter, inherits her grandfather’s orchard. Although it is a foreign space to her, she... Read More

In Anbara Salam’s chilling novel "The Salvage", a marine archaeologist hunts down lost artifacts and ghosts in frigid waters. On the cusp of 1963, Marta performs a dive in remote Cairnroch to photograph local hero Captain James’s... Read More

"Meridian Rising" is Paul Burch’s inventive, entertaining historical novel about influential American singer and musician Jimmie Rodgers. Rodgers, with his distinctive “blues yodeling” style, influenced American blues, folk, and... Read More

Chronic pain and psychosomatic maladies jar a reporter in Samantha Kimmey’s brooding novel "The Extremities!" While Kim, a journalist, reports on a wildfire whose smoke permeates her coastal town, her hands throb with pain, limiting... Read More

Syr Hayati Beker’s gleaming novella "What a Fish Looks Like" alchemizes confessional notes and remixed fairy tales to tell a story of queer survival amid ecological disaster. As Earth faces giant tidal waves, uncontrollable fires, and... Read More

A Black family’s traumas are the focus of Carolivia Herron’s rending novel "Thereafter Johnnie", in which a bereaved daughter examines her origins. At first, Johnnie is a solitary “light,” condemned to haunt a former Carnegie... Read More

The interconnected early stories in Virginia Woolf’s "The Life of Violet" have radical perspectives on women’s friendships, independence, and places in society. Violet, a giantess inspired by Woolf’s lifelong friend Violet... Read More

Gigi Little’s novel "Who Killed One the Gun?" is both a hard-boiled detective story and a whimsical, existential meditation on destiny, self-determination, and forgiveness. One the Gun is a private eye tasked with finding the killer of... Read More