Secondary Characters Shine Brightest in “The Big Game is Every Night”

This review reflects on how Robert Maynor’s debut fumbles first-person point-of-view, but scores points for character development elsewhere.

Read More

Love and Art Collide in “Now is Not the Time to Panic”

A review of “Now is Not the Time to Panic” by Kevin Wilson.

Read More

Surreal Chronicles of History in “The Light at the End of the World”

A review of Siddhartha Deb’s “The Light at the End of the World.”

Read More

“Bet” on Red Clay Suzie, a Novel Rooted in Truth

In this debut, Lofton’s irresistible protagonist is both endearingly naive and surprisingly sophisticated.

Read More

Homecoming and Reckoning “Inside” Amy Rowland’s Second Novel

Witches, wolves, and ghosts are at play in the latest from the author of “The Transcriptionist.”

Read More

The Presence of Absence in Hybrid Memoir “Disequilibria”

A review of “Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness” by Robert Lunday.

Read More

The Brothers Grimm, but Feminist: Stacy Sivinski’s “Fairy Tales of Appalachia”

A review of Stacy Sivinski’s new book, “Fairy Tales of Appalachia.”

Read More

“Maybe This Is What I Deserve” Delivers Disorienting Flash Fantasy

Tucker Leighty-Phillips’ debut story collection is both nonsensical and fulfilling.

Read More