Perry's Black in Blues is a collection of interconnected essays that delves into the complex relationship between the color blue and the Black experience. Perry traces the history and origins of blue, weaving it through significant events like the…
In Seethaler's novel, Robert Simon grew up a war orphan in Austria. In the mid-1960s, at the age of 31, he spies a modest opportunity and scrapes together the resources to open a little café in Vienna. He has no special skills and must ask for basic…
Opening with a simple premise — a brutalized body, a shady witness (who shares the author's name), a detective, and a poem at the scene — this sprawling experimental noir quickly becomes a surreal and metafictional exploration of the boundaries of…
Aiden Valentine runs a dating advice show on a local Boston radio station. He's getting disenchanted with his job because it feels like all his calls are about petty squabbles in relationships. Then Maya calls to get dating advice for her mom. Once…
A masterclass in companion planting, The Garden Against Time brings the author's efforts to restore a wrecked garden into rich conversation with real and fictional gardens and their manifold meanings throughout history. Laing wrestles with the…
Weiner's propulsive coming-of-age debut is a fictionalized account of the sensational Preppy Murder which rocked New York City in August of 1986, inspiring screaming tabloid headlines for years afterward. Weiner attended prep school in Manhattan in…
The ever-creative Scottish novelist's latest is the first of a two-novel pair that reads satisfyingly on its own. While similar in some ways to the author's recent fiction (creative wordplay, appreciation for the arts and humanities, characters on…
In this heartfelt memoir, musician Neko Case details her journey from a hardscrabble childhood in the Pacific Northwest to art school in Vancouver, her decades of honing her talents as a budding musician, and her eventual recognition as a successful…
Best known as a novelist (Horse), the Australian-born writer Geraldine Brooks met her husband, author/historian Tony Horwitz (Confederates in the Attic) in journalism school. The two travelled the world for a time as a couple, covering war in the…
In the United States, attending public school has traditionally been upheld as the great equalizer: as long as you attend school, get good grades, stay in line and graduate, you will find yourself on the path to success. Unfortunately, one of the…
While working at a Chicago helpline for teen runaways in the early 1970s, Martha "Marty" Goddard was struck by how many young people were struggling as survivors of sexual violence. Her experiences advocating for victims and perhaps her own personal…
At the strip club, Ruth is known as Baby Blue. At the dungeon, she is Mistress Sunday. Ruth, in the back end of her 20s, reflects on her experiences with clients, her fellow sex workers, and her past relationships as she wanders San Francisco's…
In this collection of short fiction about the complexity of transness and queerness, readers will encounter imaginings of an apocalyptic future wherein everyone needs to take hormone injections, a tenuous relationship between two high school boys…
In this slender but potent coming-of-age novel, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka attends grad school in Australia in the 80s. As she sets out to write a thesis about Virginia Woolf, the "Woolfmother" (as she thinks of her) with whom she…
"In three months, everyone in this house will be dead." These are the opening lines of Victorian Psycho, a deliciously bloody follow-up to author Virginia Feito's debut Mrs. March (2021). Victorian Psycho takes place at Ensor House where our young…
Kyungha, a writer living is Seoul, is afflicted with migraines, nausea and nightmares. She composes her will every day and then rips it up. A book she wrote some years ago "about the massacre in G—" seems related to her current physical and mental…
Ganz, an acclaimed writer and thinker with a growing online following, hit the Publishers Weekly and Washington Post year-end top 10 lists with this history of politics in America around the time of the 1992 election. It's a remarkable achievement.…
It's the early 1970s, summertime, and the Florida heat is not the only thing that feels oppressive. 15-year-old Fern finds herself in a St. Augustine group home where pregnant teens are sent in order to conceal their families' shame. It becomes…
