A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Elegantly crafted and dazzlingly clever, Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow transcends the...

The Ghost of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Half a dozen stories from the Arabian Nights open with an enigmatic, perhaps untranslatable...

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders I didn’t know what a bardo was before reading George Saunders’s new novel Lincoln in the Bardo,...

Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph One has come to expect quality from Alice James Books. The venerable New England cooperative...

You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine “Most serious and productive artists,” writes Joyce Carol Oates, “are ‘haunted’ by their...

Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Close your eyes and imagine Karl Marx. Can you see him? That giant head covered in curly hair, that jolly...

White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad Translated by Jennifer Hayashida Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, is...

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Albert Camus is a modern prophet of humanism. He was born in 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria, into...

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara At the center of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is love. The kind of love that binds four men...

The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf Oliver Bendorf writes in the poem “Ghost Dog,” “I miss things sometimes that I cannot locate in...

Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams All of the poems in Thief in the Interior, Phillip B. Williams’s debut collection, are poems...

The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky Vulnerability spills from Paul Lisicky’s memior The Narrow Door. An atmosphere of exposure hovers over...

The Genome Rhapsodies by Anna George Meek Relatives coo over an infant, his future formed by both his drug-addicted parents’ DNA and the...

The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy Benjamin Percy knows how to write a compelling monster novel. In Red Moon (2013), he uses lycanthropy...

Call Me By My Other Name by Valerie Wetlaufer I’m still not sure if Valerie Wetlaufer has written a history in verse, or simply folded...

The Rusted City by Rochelle Hurt Peter Johnson, editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, defines prose poetry as an intricate...

Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann When Beth Bachmann released Temper in 2009, she left a violent mark on the poetry world with her elegiac...

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert By the end of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, my mouth was watering for a fluffy...

Days of Shame & Failure by Jennifer L. Knox Even the lovers of poetry get bored sometimes, and we often bring a little of that...

George Singleton, Between Wrecks In George Singleton’s Between Wrecks, the South is as much a physical space as it is an ever-present...