Robert Lane’s compelling literary detective novel "Searching for Dali" unravels the mystery of a missing painting. Veronica is a multimillionaire whose memories are slipping away. She has “die” penciled into her phone calendar. Her... Read More

Modest generosity is used to combat multigenerational poverty and racial prejudice in the rural South in Jeffrey Blount’s novel "Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way". “No good deed goes unpunished,” thinks Jimmy, a disgraced billionaire... Read More

In Brenda Iijima’s multilayered science fiction novel "Presence", interspecies and interdimensional communication is transcendent. On toxic Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, people from different chronological dimensions coexist,... Read More

A grieving antiquarian chases after a Kabbalistic manuscript in Jamieson Findlay’s absorbing mystery novel "Pilgrims of the Upper World". Zarandok, a secretive Jewish man, asks Tavish, a bookseller in Geneva, to revive his Aramaic... Read More

A battle with drug addiction is supplanted by a bicycle-powered birding road trip in Dorian Anderson’s gripping memoir "Birding Under the Influence". Anderson was an addict. Whether he was strung out on the drugs and alcohol he abused... Read More

Humans and supernatural beings have complex interpersonal dynamics in the rich, exciting fantasy world of "The Price of Thorns". In Tim Susman’s epic fantasy novel "The Price of Thorns", a thief under the command of an ancient queen... Read More

A memoir about transgender womanhood and the messy art of self-construction, McKenzie Wark’s "Love and Money, Sex and Death" models how identity muddies the waters of who you are, what you want to be like, and who you want to be with.... Read More

Grant Hayter-Menzies’s heartwarming memoir "Freddie" is about the rescue dog who became his rescuer. Part Pomeranian, Freddie was rescued from a hellish existence with an animal hoarder. He endured hunger and fear before Hayter-Menzies... Read More