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.

Danish writer Josefine Klougart has written an evocative, eerie novel of love and injury in One of Us Is Sleeping.

Pike and Bloom, winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize at Lake Forest College, is an impressive debut novel by author Matthew Nye.

Charles Haverty’s Excommunicados is a collection of subtle and many-layered stories that defy simple categorization.

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.

Moments of tenderness are rare in this collection, which sees lives ruined and cattle murdered all in the name of retribution, but when some tenderness does bleed through, it’s usually in relation to animals.

In twenty-five stories (twenty-six if you count an unusually haunting Note on the Type), Michel ventures through a tainted American landscape full of monsters, pitfalls, neglected gods, and robot butlers. The appeal here is in being disoriented, moving abruptly from one reality to another—even within the confines of a single piece.

Characters like Harriet appear only rarely in fiction for the same reason they’re overlooked in real life: they can’t tell their own stories. Evison has given Harriet Chance not one voice but two in a book that should make us take a closer look at the women we know who never “made a name” for themselves.”