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. …
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Double Effect
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
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
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
The Queer Advantage
Hardcover: $30, 346 pages/ E-book: $14.99; ISBN: 9780306874611, 030687461X
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, …
The Office of Historical Corrections
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. Penguin Random House, 2020. $27.00, 269 pages.
“It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the polis, and I had …
Transcendent Kingdom
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 …
True Love by Sarah Gerard
True Love by Sarah Gerard. Harper, 2020. $25.99, 224 pages
We meet Nina on speakerphone, telling her friend Odessa that her mom is trying to reconcile their past, while holding her phone’s camera to her crotch to send a picture …
You Will Never Be Forgotten
You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South. FSG Originals, 2020. $15, 257 pages.
Mary South’s short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten begins with the line, “The Keiths are Keiths because they are not particularly handsome, not particularly …
The Cactus League
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. $27.00, 288 Pages.
I am in love with baseball. Classic Americana baseball movies, The Sandlot, and Field of Dreams were staples of my childhood. I go to as many …
