“The Mystery of Growing Up”: Robert Crooke Reviews WHEN ME AND GOD WERE LITTLE by Mads Nygaard

In this complex and personal novel, dedicated to his father, Mads Nygaard spins a web of mysteries around family secrets, … More

DEATH AND SO FORTH, scintillating short fictions told and retold by Gordon Lish, reviewed by Nathan Blake

A woman leaves town on business, phones her husband when the plane touches down. “How’s the cat?” she asks. “The … More

AND THEN THE GRAY HEAVEN, a novel by RE Katz, reviewed by Lillian Barfield

And Then the Gray Heaven by RE Katz centers around Jules, a queer young adult who has emerged from foster … More

Maria Judnick Reviews CALL IT HORSES, a Dzanc Books epistolary road novel by Jessie van Eerden

“I write you about the dead. I write you to stay alive and, after all this time, I write you, … More

“Graphical Variations”: MY RED HEAVEN by Lance Olsen, an historical experimental novel from Dzanc Books, reviewed by Daniel Green

In a career that now includes 14 novels and four collections of short fiction (as well as seven works of … More

Noreen Hernandez on Tina May Hall’s debut novel THE SNOW COLLECTORS from Dzanc Books

Tina May Hall has created a work of storytelling art in The Snow Collectors by weaving the genres of gothic … More

“mother, child : art doesn’t help,” an excerpt from Lance Olsen’s novel MY RED HEAVEN

Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters—some historic, some invented—crossing paths on the streets … More

Eric Aldrich on John Englehardt’s New Novel BLOOMLAND

John Englehardt’s new novel, Bloomland, challenges readers to live and relive a mass shooting at a fictional southern university from … More

Joaquin Macias Reviews WOMEN AND MEN, a new edition of Joseph McElroy’s classic novel

In the new edition of Joseph McElroy’s classic novel Women and Men, we follow James Mayn and Grace Kimball, two … More

“Hear the Chorus Underfoot”: Jesi Buell Reviews Alice Hatcher’s Novel THE WONDER THAT WAS OURS

 “How hard a thing is life to the lowly,and yet how human and real!”—W. E. B. Du Bois The Wonder … More

An Excerpt from the Novel THE COLOR INSIDE A MELON by John Domini

  Risto—Aristofano Al’Kair—is a rarity in contemporary Italy, an immigrant success story out of Africa. Born in Mogadishu, he’s earned … More

WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS, short stories by Chaya Bhuvaneswar, reviewed by Wendy J. Fox

Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut White Dancing Elephants reads less like a first book and more like a master cartographer’s map of … More

THE LOST COUNTRY, a posthumous novel by William Gay, reviewed by Michael A. Ferro

One cannot help but wonder what the world of southern gothic literature might be like had William Gay published earlier … More

THE PAVILION OF FORMER WIVES by Jonathan Baumbach

It’s easy to feel distant at first in Jonathan Baumbach’s new collection of fictions, The Pavilion of Former Wives, due … More

ARK by Julian Tepper

Julian Tepper’s second novel, Ark, chronicles a once wealthy, currently inept, New York family, the (sort of) titular Arkins, on … More