The Almond

“Nedjma . . . has a gift for turning a beautiful phrase obscene and vice versa. . . . The novel is so genuinely artful, so emotionally sincere, that the…

Deafening

“Moving and memorable. . . . Itani is an artist who understands what to include and what to leave out, when to whisper and when to shout. . . ….

Seven Mile Beach

“Unusual, fast, light, short, suspenseful, meaningful, and filled with an immigrant’s pointed observations about identity and the possibility of changing it. . . . [With an] appealing stench of paranoia…

The Reluctant Sheriff

Master storyteller Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as “righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. Cosby,” and in this…

The Lost German Slave Girl

“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Stripper Lessons

“O’Brien handles [his] story with a masterly and subtle art, as her turns the unlikely into the possible without gush or affectation: Like Carroll himself, the change is slow, timid,…

Wrecked

Thought-provoking and explicit, Wrecked is a raw and taboo-breaking novel of sex and death that explores every detail of a submissive marriage….

Tokyo Cancelled

“[This] brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel . . . harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer. . . . There is something marvelously primitive about the function of story…