“Allow me to confide a few darker twists, now that I’m throwing this all out there to you, a perfect…

“My father told my brothers and me the story of how the statue of Saint Sebastian came to the village…

Assassination is a tense, sweaty business. So Nick Averose found it odd, as he sat inside this bush for the…

She was a ripple in a river that stretched back more than two thousand years. She was so sure she’d…

We all pretend to be someone we’re not. Mike poses as a guy’s guy, Mom pretends to be a socialmover-and-shaker,…

“The stoplight ahead shone red, and my leg was supposed to move to the brake pedal without a thought. Instead,…

“The Rio de la Plata is a corpulent snake, mused Ulrich; it nestles around your neck, it strangles you for…

“By the end of the second day, hundreds are dead. By the end of the week, thousands and thousands are…

…”he found himself dismayed by his general helplessness, which was not exactly the same as resenting what his daughter did…

“I was always held responsible for my teenaged exile to West Virginia. I was 12 or 13 when that part…

“The length of the dam curved its back against the flow of the river as it spanned the channel. This…

“The day before my sister’s pretend wedding, the family gathered in Maine for our annual meeting, at my grandfather’s island…

“It’s just such quirks that have made Paris Paris, a city of endless layers and perspectives, a city of story…

“I have a complete realization of my shortcomings, but I’m a decent person and spend my days building my nest…

“I was eighteen years old, a privileged math prodigy with two graduate degrees. Having leapfrogged my adolescence, I imagined life…

Tentative, curious, uncertain, alive, she followed him into the woods, moving in the direction where perhaps she imagined the rest…

“We were college graduates, blasé about it, diploma rolled into tubes. It was 1991; a diploma couldn’t save you from…

Considered one of the greatest writers in the Hebrew language, S.Y. Agnon received the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Two sisters are struggling to save their land when a gas well explodes on a neighboring ranch in western Colorado,…

Planted in her mind while the author was working as a professional gardener, The Forgetting Flower (Magnolia Press, 2019) tells…

To Keep the Sun Alive (Catapult, 2019) is the kind of rich, compelling story that not only informs the past,…

After surviving a car crash that left her widowed at twenty-two, Kathleen has retreated to a remote corner of a…

For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors. It’s the mid 1990’s, Isabel is…

Practice Dying is about twins, David and Jamila, who seek meaning and connection from opposite ends of the world. Just…

Sunil Chandaria is struggling to write his PhD dissertation in philosophy at Harvard University. He feels his father’s disapproval because…

Julie Zuckerman’s moving and engrossing debut novel-in-stories, The Book of Jeremiah (Press 53, 2019), tells the story of awkward but…

It’s the late 1990’s and Alice Stein is a grad student in New York City. Her father died the previous…

The Genuine Stories is a linked collection centered around Genevieve “Genuine” Eriksson, a woman with an uncanny ability to heal…

Against the backdrop of a gritty 1890’s Chicago teeming with labor problems, filthy sweatshops, and putrid stockyards, two young immigrants…

Since being sold into slavery as a child and working her way up to becoming concubine and mistress for several…

Minneapolis environmental attorneys Nick Ward and Lena Grant are no longer partners in law or marriage, but their lives are…

It’s 1999, and Ann is a guitar-playing thirty-year-old preschool teacher who dreams of having children even though she was born…

It’s a hot August day in 1976, the sun beats down in the Mississippi Delta, and three siblings go swimming…

The only job Andrei Kaplan has been able to find since completing his doctorate, is teaching an online, poorly-paid course.

Questions about freedom of the press, defamation, libel, and slander have been in the news quite a bit lately. Bad…

In her first novel, Everything Here is Beautiful (Pamela Dorman Books, 2018), author Mira T. Lee delves into the sometimes…