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

In her latest novel, Donoghue’s child characters once again shine in their imaginings when faced with creating solace in unimaginable circumstances… read more

The subtitle to the book, aptly named, is “Essays Near Knowing.” Not essays of expertise. Not even essays of critical analysis—essays in the proximity of understanding (bodily, mentally, philosophically). … read more

Set in Oklahoma, the stories in this collection are sharp, precise, and surprising… read more

This novel is only the beginning of a longer story. From the first page, the reader is pulled into a fascinating logic game—what is this world, how did I enter it, how did these characters come to be? And then, as the story  progresses, and some of the more rudimentary plot details are made clear,… read more

The book details the struggles of “former child prodigy and rich-girl kleptomaniac” Ester Rosenthal as she navigates a post-prison life as a high-end professional dog walker… read more