Neon Green
…the presence of the alien ship never overwhelms the meat of the story, a heartfelt slice of life told through alternating perspectives of a nuclear family in the ’90s.
The Gustav Sonata
Tremain paints her picture of post-war Switzerland with care and steadiness, and the reader can’t help but surrender to the landscape and the authorial voice.
Seeing Red
One evening in New York, Lina Meruane’s body “seize[s] up” and leaves her “paralyzed, [her] sweaty hands clutching at the air.” Just as she reaches to her purse to pick up an insulin shot, a “firecracker” goes off in her head . . .
Road Trip
In text segments set apart by eerie black and white photographs and simple headings, the Starks, a Minnesota farming family, first by how and when they died, and then by who they were when living.
High in the Streets
Matthew Binder’s High in the Streets is a transgressive novel packed full of self-destruction and self-flagellation.
The Tombstone Race: Stories
The fourteen stories in the collection, all set in New Mexico, peer under society’s stones to examine the lives of some of its most invisible members.
One of Us Is Sleeping
Danish writer Josefine Klougart has written an evocative, eerie novel of love and injury in One of Us Is Sleeping.
Pike and Bloom
Pike and Bloom, winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize at Lake Forest College, is an impressive debut novel by author Matthew Nye.
Excommunicados
Charles Haverty’s Excommunicados is a collection of subtle and many-layered stories that defy simple categorization.
Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories
In his debut story collection Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories, Edward Hamlin doesn’t shy away from difficult conflict, nor does he allow his characters much respite.