A first novel by playwright Jillian Weise tackles the moral and ethical questions surrounding both medical research and human relationships. …more

Kurt Caswell’s memoir describes his year teaching in a place of violence, despair, doubt… and hope. …more

Despite this novel’s serious flaws, it is a gratifying experience. You don’t so much read Lorrie Moore’s books as inhabit them—after which they inhabit you. …more

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler takes a crack at the underworld in a hit-and-miss new novel. …more

Lydia Peelle’s stories focus on scurrilous ne’er-do-wells who flail about in circumstances beyond their control. …more

A playwright’s first novel takes on adolescence and grief in a post-9/11 world …more

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés’s stories about refugees from the Mariel Boatlift present the conflicts and loneliness of exile.

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Two recent novels bend history to the will of their authors. …more

A review of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore …more