Nonfiction. 288 pgs. Pantheon Books. June 2025. 9780593317624. Something is wrong with men. They are stockpiling weapons and exploding Cybertrucks in front of weird hotels. They are drinking on the…
Fiction. 272 pgs. Bloomsbury Publishing. January 2023. 9781635579789. Fight Night by Miriam Toews is a short book that packs a punch. We hear it straight from eight-year-old Swiv, who is…
Poetry. 155 pgs. Magnus Grehn Forlag. 2024. County Carlow is the second smallest county in Ireland, rural and inconspicuous, certainly not the place you would expect to find a kitchen…
Fiction. 320 pgs. Quirk Books. January 2025. 9781683693956. January of 2025: a particularly poignant time to publish anything political. So much so that it was hard to encounter a piece…
Nonfiction. 272 pgs. Catapult. March 2025. 9781646222414. For several years I have been periodically giving up on and coming back to a slow, intricate, difficult, but engrossing computer game called…
Poetry. 90 pgs. Riot in Your Throat. December 2024. 9798988989844. There is a wicked cleverness to DEVOUT by Hadley Jones. They are one of those poets who appear to have…
Rus Bradburd, whose satiric novel Big Time (Estruscan Press) was released in fall 2024, coached NCAA basketball under Don Haskins of Glory Road fame before he went on to coach his own NCAA teams…
Novellas. 206 pgs. Panhandler Books. January 2024. 9780991640485. As its title suggests, Proper Imposters is a collection of stories about muddied identities. Within each of its four novellas—written by four…
Ayesha F. Hamid: More Strange Than True is complex, compelling, and full of rich world-building and detail. What inspired you to write this book? If this is not the genre…
Fiction. 320 pgs. Riverhead Books. October 2023. 9780593421093. In his latest novel, Black queer author Bryan Washington remakes the world in his own image. Family Meal (October 2023, Riverhead Books)—like…