Many of Bledsoe’s narrators seem desperate in a way that makes the reader want to look away. This is her strength as a writer…. read more

Anna Burke has created a real gem with Compass Rose, one that fans of science fiction should not miss… read more

“I hope readers find Sodom Road Exit to be a page-turner—it is a ghost story after all, and a sexy ghost story too.”… 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

Felt in the Jaw excels at revealing moments of fracture, moments at which the careful facades Arnett’s characters have built around their inner lives finally crack. … read more

In Crudo , Laing tells an urgent, hyper contemporary tale about love and queerness in the age of political unrest and collapse… read more

In twenty three connected exquisite moments (or stories), the novel constructs a map of loss, its creative potential, its capacity to tear open the world, trouble boundaries, and dust everything with wonder… read more

“There’s a romanticism of artists toiling away in the garret, wearing ripped up tights, dancing alone in an unheated studio, and the reality is that artists work very hard for very little recognition.”… read more

Moschovakis is a poet, and Eleanor is unmistakably a poet’s novel, alert to the textures of experience but relaxed in the pursuit of plot… read more