As a collection, Long Love has a quiet pulse on the culture… read more

Maggie Terry, Sarah Schulman’s return to crime fiction, mixes the classic form with contemporary themes such as the Trump presidency and the Black Lives Matter movement… read more

Fashion Climbing is both refreshing and surprising. For any of us who don’t think much about fashion, the book is a revelation… read more

These poems trace, as in they follow clues toward causation; as in they draw soft silhouettes of hard correlations…. read more

Sarah Winman’s third novel, Tin Man (Putnam), is only about two hundred pages long, but it covers a great deal of ground. It begins in 1950, when Dora Judd wins a raffle and, against her husband’s orders, selects a print of van Gogh’s Sunflowers as her prize rather than a bottle of whiskey. The novel… read more

Night Soil is a remarkable novel that explores many themes simultaneously—the relationship between a single mother and her son, the repercussions of racism in America, the abuse of our environment—all through the life of an unique gay character… read more

Sam Sax continues to prove that he is one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry … read more

MacGregor’s newest romance is a marvelous, entertaining, captivating book as complex and full-bodied as that perfect cup of tea…. read more

Genevieve Hudson’s debut short story collection, Pretend We Live Here, is the kind of book that makes you see yourself and the world a bit more clearly… read more

Several recent summer novels that have female protagonists intersecting with queerness and race in compelling ways…. read more