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

Waste is a rapid-action unconventional novel that takes place over two days in 1989 in the fictional and economically dying … More

Imagine a trust fall where, instead of a bundle of coworkers who you didn’t like to begin with, you drop … More

1. Throughout his entire life, my grandfather has worked and lived as a farmer. Years of shuffling feet, skinny legs … More

The horror stories of kids, especially lesbian and gay kids, forced into the world of prostitution, with its coincident realms … More

I’ve read almost all of George Singleton’s books. His novel Workshirts for Madmen is the best thing I’ve read about … More

Anne Valente’s first collection, By Light We Knew Our Names, offers up thirteen unique stories dealing with the difficult transitions … More

I’ve got ninety-nine problems but this book ain’t one. Seriously, though, in Alan Michael Parker’s new collection of ninety-nine linked … More

College lit crit courses. Perhaps that’s the best purpose for John Domini’s The Sea-God’s Herb. His compendium of essays and … More

Before writing this review of Eugene Marten’s Layman’s Report, I sat down to watch Errol Morris’ documentary that focused on … More

There is a cold wisdom shining through the stories in Jac Jemc’s A Different Bed Every Time, a detached and … More

Nathan Deuel’s new book Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East (Dzanc Books) is a memoir about … More

Sometimes I remember that the world is big. I remember this in the context of thinking about how the world … More

In March, a reboot of SimCity was met with an outcry from PC gamers around the world. The game, which … More