The Terrible is the queer coming-of-age story of poet, model, and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward… read more

This novel showcases a true understanding of the current American political landscape, without being academic, inaccessible, or polemic… read more

Anne Raeff’s Winter Kept Us Warm is a profound success that manages to take its place in the canon of excellent war literature while also maintaining a kind of magical surreality…. read more

This collection is beautiful and harrowing and terribly vital. There’s nothing ordinary, nothing common about Moon’s writing, which holds a bright light to darkness and says, come forward.

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Once Elizabeth J. Colen lays an image down (and she lays images down one at a time, like celluloids or tracing paper), it’s impossible to un-see or un-know it. And—the most remarkable of all— the truths she constructs are far more nuanced and intuitive to the human condition…. read more

Pruyn creates powerful poems that beautifully explore themes of love and loss…. read more

A genre pastiche, this novel is at once a humane character study, a biting academic satire, and a gothic fantasia… read more

Cakewalk, Brown’s newest novel, takes on the monumental task of portraying a town caught in the aftermath of war… read more

State of Grace is just as unsparing and jarring as the experience of trauma itself…. read more

In a recent issue of The New Yorker, writer Mary Karr said something that spoke to the post-election stupor we’ve all been inhabiting…. read more