The Interrogative Mood
“Does integrity lie in failure?” asks the narrator of Padgett Powell’s new novel. He hopes that it does.
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Forgetting English
This brief collection of stories, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, takes readers around the world to examine familiar relationships without geographical boundaries.
Fog Is Also Good for This
Jamie Iredell weaves a drug-and-alcohol fueled journey out of brief, vivid bursts of language.
Refresh, Refresh
A new graphic novel translates Benjamin Percy’s short story about children of the Iraq war into brilliant color.
A Future Always Pure and Perfect and Remote
Jon Stephen Fink’s novel A Storm in the Blood imagines the lives of Jews, anti-Tsarists, and revolutionaries in London’s East End.
The Hurricane and the War
A new book about a soldier who murdered his girlfriend examines the similar traumas of combat veterans and Katrina survivors.
Accomplices in Her Accomplishment
As much as Intruder makes us look at the difficult, the painful, the ugly, it also gives us a chance to watch the insides of a snow globe swirl, to…
A Vowel Away From Master
These poems often resist the reader in the same way his speaker resists his father, but the book’s exploration of such distance creates a closeness between the reader and the…
Heartlands
Four debut authors—Josh Weil, Skip Horack, Holly Goddard Jones, and Amy Greene—paint varied pictures of the South they know.
A Window’s for Looking Into
Robin Ekiss’s debut collection of poems explores the relationship between the past and the present with strength, clarity, and emotional intimacy.
Sleeper’s Wake
John Wraith’s penis is a neat literary device. It provides character depth and motivation, and is central to every plot twist in the book.
A Squared-Off Landscape Representing the World
A Village Life is the work of a mature poet looking out at the world from a window, but now concerned with the larger cycles in which she participates, instead…