Griswold grapples with a world that is fracturing at its foundation. In this series of poems, all at once dark. humorous and questioning, the author moves from the familiar to the unjust to hope with a keen eye...

Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...

Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to reconstruct the life of the Greely Party as it attempted to survive impossible conditions...

To catch the people who killed her environmentalist father, the main character of Karl Schroeder’s "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2019) disappears into a virtual world of overlapping LARPs—live action role-playing games...

Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...

An orphaned young woman disguises herself as a boy in order to escape the dangers of being alone in 1870’s San Francisco...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Choi explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence...

What does the future hold for the Midwest?

If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

In the fantasy medieval land of Trea—a conservative society that despite its worship of the goddess Amur respects her human daughters only as wives and mothers—eighteen-year-old Berona has limited expectations for her future...

Young provides a lyrical exploration of cultural encounters in the Pacific Northwest...

In 1916, Adana Moreau’s parents are killed by American Marines. She flees to Santo Domingo and then to New Orleans. There, she marries a pirate...

When Nino Cipri entered the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, they had no expectation of winning, so when they won, they were shocked...

Prechtel introduces the unique stories he heard when he lived among the Tzutujil Mayan people in the village of Santiago Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands...

As "Gifts for the Dead" opens, it is 1911 and the heroine, Nora Sweeney, is waiting for bad news in Hoboken, NJ...

A combination of Charles Kuralt and Lawrence Ritter, Balukjian’s work examines 14 baseball players pulled from a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards...

Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel "Bygone Days" brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences...

Sarah Kozloff does her world building gradually and carefully, introducing you to a few characters you get to know and care for, before moving on to other lands and cultures...

Some war stories emphasize heroism and a higher purpose; others emphasize brutality and disillusionment...

After her parents' divorce, Jackie Stalnaker is sent to her grandmother’s dilapidated house in a tiny town in West Virginia...

Adams' son is on the autistic spectrum, and her love for him becomes a beautiful and passionate engine that ultimately leads her to start a movement that may just transform how we see camels and how we see and treat autism...

'The Dependents' is a sensitive novel about love, parenthood, friendship, and finding contentment...

Priya Sharm's 'Ormeshadow' is about more about human beasts than the actual dragon that slumbers under the earth...