“What Their Spirits Have Denied”: Robert Crooke Reviews A HEAVEN OF THEIR CHOOSING by Joann Smith

Many of the elegant stories in Joann Smith’s debut collection turn on moments of sudden insight. In “Phlebotomist’s Day” a … More

“What’s Missing?”: Benjamin Kinney on the Quest for Identity in Shawn Rubenfeld’s THE EGGPLANT CURSE AND THE WARP ZONE

Joshua Schulman is a modern-day Pac-Man: powering his way through a path he cannot predict, all while being haunted by … More

Ross Wilcox’s recent collection of stories, Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society, presents some of the most delightfully strange fiction I’ve … More

Portrait of Sebastian Khan is a coming-of-age novel of great intrigue by Aatif Rashid. Sebastian, a mixed ethnicity Muslim, is … More

Melissa Duclos’s Besotted tells the simultaneously building and unraveling love story of two queer women expats in Shanghai, Sasha and … More

If there’s one resounding message to be found in Josh Denslow’s debut collection of stories, Not Everyone Is Special, it’s … More

Like a Champion, by Vincent Chu, is a collection of short stories that could be written about your next-door neighbor. … More

I fear the praise I want to give Paul Cohen’s debut novel The Glamshack might end up hurting its sales. To say The Glamshack is unlike … More