By H. L. Hix

Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding:...

By Stephen Dunn

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn’s new book of poetry, Whereas, comes out of a life...

By Floyd Skloot

Part travelogue, part memoir, part novel, this semi-autobiographical and semi-biographical endeavor is multifaceted and blends...

By Angela Morales

With humor and compassion, Morales vividly captures the quirky imagery of growing up in 1970s...

By Elizabeth Arnold

Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...

By Carole Firstman

The main subject of the book is Firstman’s relationship with her father, Bruce Firstman, a...

By Rachel Hall

This book is ultimately about the numerous hard ways humans survive horrors, not just during...

By Allegra Hyde

Many of the stories involve disillusionment and self-discovery of the type we often find in...

By Saša Stanišić, translated by Anthea Bell

From the opening lines of Saša Stanišić’s Before the Feast, the reader sits as if...

By Sandra Meek

Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...

By Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher

The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...

By Robert Fernandez

Fernandez poses an intellectual, referential voice that is continually confounding a consistent line of thought....

By Sequoia Nagamatsu

The inherent intimacy of the perspective is one way Nagamatsu infuses the otherworldly with the...

By Knud Sønderby, translated by Michael Goldman

Full of deft humor and thoughtful introspection, Fragments of a Mirror offers up glittering shards...

By Marshall Moore

Infused with an element of the fantastical, many of the stories, initially appearing straightforward and...

By Alicia Jo Rabins

Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations...

By Kimberly Grey

The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that...

By Jonathan Corcoran

Nowhere is the tension between the “gift” and “test” of West Virginia more deftly drawn...

By Suzanne Buffam

Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a...

By Randa Jarrar

Jarrar's characters are Muslims, mainly women, usually not living their lives in lockstep with the...

By Peter Gizzi

Gizzi is always exacting with his line breaks and in this case uses them to...

By Diane Simmons

After a period of bewilderment, Eva came to understand that Vick was a serial bigamist...