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...

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...

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...

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...

Klaver reminds us that no matter the digital distance between us we are never quite alone...

It’s 1937 and rural Tennessee is still recovering from the Great Depression. The construction of a huge dam brings job seekers, fortune hunters, and the promise of electricity to the area...

Burdick turns a spotlight on the world of “Magdalene laundries” and the many nameless women who passed through them...

"Impetuous Sleeper" offers us an interesting opportunity to talk about a part of publishing world that we often don’t talk about: what happens when your publisher closes and your book goes out of print?

John Howland and his descendants struggle with their New England legacy as one of the country's founding families and the decaying trappings of that esteemed past..

Fort gives readers a chance to dive into the world of early 20th century Uzbek literature and understand the complex social problems of late Russian imperial Turkestan...

McGuire sees elements of a “modern Frankenstein” in her novel about a brother and sister created by a ruthless alchemist...

Rossi tells the real life story of his effort to get to the bottom of confidence men in the modern American West...

A crash course in the law as well as a darkly humorous thriller, Christopher Brown’s "Rule of Capture" should make you think hard about the importance of law and its implications for citizens...

In this delightful debut novel Katherine Kayne sweeps us back to a Hawaii still mourning its lost kingdom,..

Joyce Ashuntantang talks about her experiences as a traveler and a poet, from her childhood Cameroon to her years studying in Great Britain and the United States...

"The Dead Man" a beautiful tale of love, loss, family, and the music of the world around us...