The Golden Wolf seamlessly blends Old Norse folklore with creative imagination to paint a picture of ninth-century Norway from the inside...

Karen Hugg loves plants and is thrilled when new cultivars or varieties are discovered...

It is not easy to interview a writer of murder mysteries without giving away too many details...

Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from popular memory...

Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...

The only thing that endures after millennia of espionage and intrigue is love...

A picaresque novel about a serious boy with special powers, "The Lost Puzzler" takes place in an impoverished, technologically backwards world.

It’s 1979, and the Islamic Revolution is just around the corner, as is a massive solar eclipse...

Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...

Willig nimbly balances Emily’s story against her grandfather’s, interweaving the stories of three families across two timelines into a seamless whole...

"Ways to Hide in Winter" is a powerful story about violence and redemption, betrayal and empathy, and how we reconcile the unforgivable in those we love...

Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zombies, vampires, and werewolves—to the threat of an alien invasion...

101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...

"Practice Dying" is about twins, David and Jamila, who seek meaning and connection from opposite ends of the world...

jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...

For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”

For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors...

"Invitation to a Bonfire" is inspired by the life of the well-known Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.

The massive corporation at the center of Eliot Peper’s "Analog" trilogy, which he completed last month with the publication of "Breach" (47North, 2019) is radically different from most science fictional companies

Brianna, our narrator, is the daughter of a country inn-keeper...

Rea introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh...

It takes an apology like Boutsikaris gives to reveal that complexity and help us live with it and in it rather than reduce it to some simple—and false—truth...

Harris talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo’s route across Central Asia and Tibet...

Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.

Williams presents a familiar world full of burnings carried out on both the grand and intimate scale...