In reflective prose, Tariq Mehmood’s kaleidoscopic novel "Sing to the Western Wind" unravels the life of man driven to the brink by political and religious violence. Saleem is at the end of his life. He has bombs strapped to his chest... Read More

Siblings reunite for a weekend in Linda Dahl’s "Tiny Vices", a wise novel about navigating midlife in which tense relationships and a woman’s self-protectiveness collide. On a spring break trip to Rincón Bay, Mexico, Kathy... Read More

An inestimable novel of ideas, Michael Lentz’s monumental book "Schattenfroh" follows the consciousness of a trapped man as he thinks through his existence, his relationship to his father, and centuries of German culture. “One calls... Read More

In Maya Arad’s epistolary novel "Happy New Years", an Israeli immigrant writes annual Rosh Hashanah letters to her friends back home, masking the reality of her life in the US. From 1966 to 2016, Leah writes to women from her... Read More

In Andrew Kaufman’s wry, bawdy, and surreal supernatural short story collection "Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel", travelers at personal crossroads happen upon a motel where unexplainable events alter their perceptions of... Read More

Enthralling and surreal, An Yu’s dystopian novel "Sunbirth" reconsiders approaches to the end of the world. Though the citizens of Five Poems Lake have had twelve years to adjust to the incremental loss of the sun, they still feel... Read More

In Eden’s Clock, Norman Lock’s concluding stand-alone volume of The American Novels series, a Civil War veteran and clocksmith travels to San Francisco, arriving on the evening before the city’s massive 1906 earthquake. In 1905,... Read More

A murdered girl’s essence persists, her body resisting deterioration and inspiring whispers of miracles, in Josephine Rowe’s radiant novel "Little World". The body of a child, a possible saint-to-be, arrives in the Australian desert,... Read More