Plenty of fiction and nonfiction explores how performance of the self on social media can be detrimental to our lives. Fake Accounts raises the bar.
Areum’s reckoning with his fate makes for a wrenching story. As fleeting as his fictional life may be, he will not be a character easily forgotten.
Melissa Broder’s approach is perfectly sautéed lesbianism, a rom-com that turns serious.
Throughout 11 short stories, Dantiel W. Moniz weaves tales that are as profound as they are unnerving, as moving as they are surprising.
Zak Salih’s first novel is a gorgeously written meditation on being a gay man in America now.
Three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Sarah Langan takes readers on a descent into depraved suburban drama.
Faye’s voice is charming, funny, sometimes philosophical and occasionally digressive. Faye, Faraway is a welcome escape.
J.D. Barker and Dacre Stoker offer a spine-tingling supplement to Bram Stoker’s iconic Dracula with Dracul.
The opening premise of Eman Quotah’s debut, Bride of the Sea, is intriguing, and it soon transforms into a family saga that spans from 1970 to 2018.
This ain’t no Louis L’Amour tale. Outlawed is a gender-bending, genre-hopping yarn that’s part frontier novel and part Handmaid’s Tale.
Aya de León’s novel isn’t just about a rock-ribbed conservative whose eyes are opened; it soon morphs into something darker and more kinetic.
Nothing sets up a potential catastrophe better than the combination of outsiders and wilderness, and on this point Sarah Moss does not disappoint.
Liese O’Halloran Schwarz’s novel juggles a complex story and structure, creating believable characters in its portrait of a family shattered by loss.
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