The Witchfinder’s Serpent is a fantastical novel about coming of age in the face of parental loss and a small town’s tragic, violent history. In Rande Goodwin’s fantasy novel The Witchfinder’s Serpent, a small Connecticut town... Read More

In Maya MacGregor’s empowering novel "The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will", an agender teenager learns to acknowledge their trauma, find strength in others, and exist without apologies. Though Will once found comfort with their... Read More

While working as migrants, a Mi’kmaq family is rent by their daughter’s disappearance in Amanda Peters’s decades-spanning, heartrending novel "The Berry Pickers". Even before Ruthie disappeared from the Maine field where her... Read More

Set in the early 1960s, Edward Cahill’s intriguing novel "Disorderly Men" concerns the aftermath of a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar. Sophisticated and “gray-flanneled” Roger is a World War II veteran, husband, and... Read More

If there were such a thing as a list of do’s and don’ts for a hired assassin, “Don’t get involved with the target” would probably be at the top of the “don’ts” column. Linda L. Richards’s propulsive novel "Dead West"... Read More

"Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms" is a delightful exploration of an often-overlooked aspect of the natural world: the fungi that are essential to the health of the planet. Alison Pouliot contends that fungi are often misunderstood or... Read More