Ada Calhoun’s debut novel about a middle-aged wife and mother offers a wry critique of the sexual confines of marriage.

Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s ...

In many ways, 'Theory & Practice' is like a coming-of-age novel or perhaps a coming-to-writing novel. Author Michelle de ...

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Elaine Garvey, who has had stories published in 'Stinging Fly' and 'Winter Papers', is especially good at dialogue, with a ...

In Stuart Murdoch’s ‘Nobody’s Empire,’ exhaustion, despair and making a new path where illness doesn’t define him.

A book that uses literary post-structuralism as its main theme while playfully subverting the limitations of that movement does not immediately sound like a recipe for the most thrilling fiction of ...

Karen Skinazi, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of ...

Do you have to believe in God to join a religious order?” asks the narrator of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional.” The question would seem to be rhetorical, since the unnamed, middle-aged ...

Hebden Bridge author Rozie Kelly publishes her debut novel in April, a year after she was announced winner of the NorthBound ...

Horror is having a moment. Once confined largely to Halloween, or at least to October, “spooky season” has evolved into a monthslong ...

DUMMY REF: The protagonist, Little Alien, is always trying to fit in with what is expected of her. But because she's undiagnosed neurodivergent, she doesn't know what's expected of her. It's all just ...