Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur So Young Koo An interwoven quilt of myths, hallucinations, and personal tales, Angela Hur’s novel...

Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger Peyton Wahl Grief is often devouring, alienating, and impenetrable. However, not so much in spite of...

Merciful Days by Jesse Graves Ian Hall In his most recent collection, Merciful Days, Jesse Graves labors to make some sense of memory,...

Swallowed Light by Michael Wasson Landis Grenville This is a book of loss. The gun and the ghost dance in Wasson’s poetry, both reminders...

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo Elizabeth Strout’s Oh William! is the third book of hers featuring the tender,...

Finna by Nino Cipri Sierra Biggs Finding an elderly grandmother who’s lost in a furniture store should be easy, right? Well, maybe not if...

Flat-Pack by Anney Bolgiano Phoebe Myers Grafting a plant requires the fusing of a root and a shoot; the two parts meld together to...

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti Liesel Hamilton When you open Anjali Enjeti’s Southbound:...

Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov Tanner Barnes Alex Dimitrov’s third collection, Love and Other Poems, starts in the middle of 14th...

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner So Young Koo As a Korean living in America, for me the title of Michelle Zauner’s memoir conjures up...

Crushing It by Jennifer L. Knox Tanner Barnes Jennifer L. Knox’s latest poetry collection, Crushing It, is hilarious and heartbreaking....

The Witch of Eye by Kathryn Nuernberger Isabella Tommasone In this curious and perceptive collection of essays, The Witch of Eye,...

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang Li Zhuang The simplistic and elegantly designed cover of Alexandra Chang’s debut novel, Days of...

Gargoyle by Jake Hanrahan Will Anderson Having started his own independent journalism organization, Popular Front, more than two years...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Li Zhuang As writers, we play with words and punctuation so much that we start to see the...

The True Jazz of Wesley Brown's 'Tragic Magic' Aram Mrjoian The first book republished as part of McSweeney’s Of The Diaspora series,...

The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Devan Schnecker The Malevolent Volume is a text that inhabits several registers. It is at...

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Keri Miller “Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many,” says Giovanna,...

Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State, MCD, 2018, $26. In 2016, Lydia Kiesling published an essay in the New Yorker in which she wrote,...

Peter Davis, Band Names & Other Poems, Bloof Books, 2018, $16 The latest poetry collection by Peter Davis is everything that the title...