Juno’s Swan is a story about the limits of love: both the crash at the end of a first love and the tunnel vision infatuation can give, the kind where everything outside that adoring gaze becomes flattened… read more

David Levithan’s Someday presents a fascinating exploration of physicality and romance… read more

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new novel Sketchtasy throbs with a deep house vibe that brilliantly mixes scathing critique with vulnerability and joy… read more

The world building for this particular set of undead girls is so seamless and well done that it becomes a study in craft… read more

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