Life on Mars

None of the stories in Lori McNulty’s debut collection is set on the planet Mars, but nevertheless that destination is invoked in nearly all of them, most often as a way of alluding to feelings ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Substitute

By Nicole Lundrigan

Following the publication of her fifth novel, 2013’s The Widow Tree, Nicole Lundrigan took a break from writing. “I felt drained of ideas,” she acknowledged in a blog post on her website. Eventually, however, she ... Read More »

May 15, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Arabic for Beginners

By Ariela Freedman

It would take a very good writer, in the opening pages of her first published novel, to distill the entire history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a symbol of two children fighting over a toy ... Read More »

May 11, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis

By Jen Powley

Just Jen chronicles author Jen Powley’s life with multiple sclerosis. Forthright, illuminating, and frequently moving in her narration, Powley addresses the clichés of typical illness stories upfront. Facing the reality of her diagnosis as a ... Read More »

May 11, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Last Neanderthal

By Claire Cameron

In Claire Cameron’s third novel, twinned narratives develop out of the 2010 discovery of two fossilized skeletons – a female Neanderthal and a male Homo sapiens – locked in what appears to be an embrace. ... Read More »

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Boundless

By Jillian Tamaki

The opening and closing spreads in Jillian Tamaki’s new collection of graphic short stories feature characters spilling off the edges of the page. The opener, “World-Class City,” is bookended by figures placed in directional opposition ... Read More »

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

Roughneck

By Jeff Lemire

In 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped while working in the town of Nazran, located in Ingushetia, a small Russian republic west of Chechnya. André was held captive for 111 days before ... Read More »

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Hostage

By Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher (trans.)

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

The Slip

By Mark Sampson

When Philip Sharpe – philosophy professor, bestselling author, and left-wing public intellectual – makes a phenomenally ill-advised remark on live TV, his “slip” goes viral, sending the rest of his life into a tailspin. It’s ... Read More »

May 4, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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