Michael Farris Smith has written eloquently about masculine brutality and trauma, and he does so again in Nick, an elaboration of The Great Gatsby.
Readers of Daniel Loedel’s debut will bear witness to human choice and compunction, to love and loss, to the fantasy that helps make sense of what is real.
Thoughtful depictions of the range of religious experience and practice make The Orchard a singular addition to the world of Jewish fiction.
In Search of a Name is a unique narrative, blending accounts of the Dutch Resistance during World War II with elements of fabulism.
Muriel Spark’s Loitering With Intent trots happily alongside aspiring would-be novelist Fleur Talbot as she breezes through bedraggled postwar London.
Memorial is this generation’s response to centuries of love stories, to a whole history of them. It’s what is coming; it’s what is here.
Many novels aim for the soul, but Ellen Cooney’s poetic 10th novel gets to the heart of the matter with more informal candor and wit than most.
This exquisite portrait of female friendship, aging and loss packs more insight into its barely 200 pages than many serious novels twice that length.
The liminal space between art, artist and audience takes an unexpected, beautiful and haunting form in Scott O’Connor’s masterful novel.
First-time novelist Max Gross is funny, insightful and mysterious in sharing what is essentially a coming-of-age story for an entire village.
The pain of long-held secrets and the lies necessary to preserve them are the subject of Bill Clegg’s intricately plotted second novel.
The voice of North African novelist Meryem Alaoui is a welcome one. Her debut is a powerful character study of a lively young sex worker.
Lush and enchanting, Magic Lessons reveals the nearly tragic but ultimately triumphant origin story of Maria, matriarch of the illustrious Owens clan.
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