It is unusual to read a book that is such a combination of information and introspection that it cannot be categorized. Letters, on the other hand, are often complex mixtures of the surroundings, thoughts, and background of their... Read More

The “circumference” of the title remains ambiguous in its application to this rewarding anthology. Twenty-eight contemporary poets responded to the editor’s request that they investigate the “idea of mastery” in a short essay,... Read More

Z. Hanna’s short story collection We’re Gonna Get Through This Together delivers sharp social commentary on twenty-first-century life. Examining race, class, sexuality, gender, capitalism, and activism, the collection uses satire to... Read More

In this debut collection, Evan D. Williams tees up more than twenty new poems and a further two dozen that first appeared in journals like Borderlands and The Mud Season Review. THE POETS the poets write their words for their legs to... 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

"Selectively Lawless" is a rollicking biography of a boundary-testing man. Bombastic and good-natured, Asa Dunnington’s biography of his hell-raising uncle Emmett Long, "Selectively Lawless", reads like an Old West tall tale that you... Read More

"Tiger Farms" is a heroic tale, an action story, and a morality play all in one—and thoroughly fun. The battle between the East and the West is an old canard. Matthew James’s debut novel "Tiger Farms" takes this old duel and injects... Read More

Edgar Bendler is twenty-four years old and lost in his loss. His girlfriend is gone—perhaps missing, perhaps dead. His cat, too. Life between university terms looms, and without the distraction of study, Ed is likely to throw himself... Read More