The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado. Penguin Books, 2021. $16, 276 pages.
What business does a story about segregationist America not wanting (literal) aliens in vintage toy stores have in the same short story collection where readers follow a post-grad,
The Scapegoat by Sara Davis, FSG, 2021, $26.00, 210 pages
Murder mysteries often go by a formula. Somebody is killed, the protagonist goes on a search for their killer, stumbling upon multiple red herrings and tripping up on the clues. …
Double Effect by Martha Serpas. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. $17.95, 73 Pages
Fans of Martha Serpas’ work—with its imagery and language, bordering on local color; its treatment of spiritual conflicts and loss; and its formal regard for semantics and …
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler. Catapult, 2021. $26.00, 265 pages.
Though Fake Accounts is Lauren Oyler’s first novel, she’s no literary unknown. Her criticism and essays appear regularly in the few remaining outlets that publish negative reviews, and she’s gained …
Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. MacMillen, 2020. $26.99, 384 pages.
Other fans of Cory Doctorow will recall the way his previous works depict, in the way much science fiction does, the seemingly inevitable result of modern-day society, rife with speculation
As a bisexual woman, I’m often met with a handful of stereotypical questions about the validity of my sexuality, as well as marginalization within the LGBTQ+ community itself– in simple terms, …
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, 2020, $27.00, 288 pages.
“At times, my life now feels so at odds with the religious teachings of my childhood that I wonder what the little girl I once was would think of the …