Early in Suzanne Berne’s troubling family portrait, The Blue Window, Marika tells her daughter that […]
Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult, by Kyle McCord
Trigger warning for murder and mass suicide. Tom Duncan is not supposed to be alive. […]
Hotel Splendide, by Ludwig Bemelmans
Before he was the writer and illustrator of the Madeline books, Ludwig Bemelmans was a […]
My Heart is a Chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones
Few other genres remind me of how subjective taste in entertainment is like horror. Mystery […]
Beasts of the Earth, by James Wade
Trigger warnings for references to incest and child sexual abuse. Harlen LeBlanc is a haunted […]
The Cloisters, by Katy Hays
I felt uneasy within the first pages of The Cloisters, by Katy Hays. That feeling […]
Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng’s magnificent, devasting novel, Our Missing Hearts, is the perfect book for our times, […]
Daughters of the New Year, by E.M. Tran
Xuan would be first in line to argue back with Cassius of Julius Caesar, who […]
Outlawed, by Anna North
Although biology and societal convention push Ada into it, she is really not cut out […]
Ghost Eaters, by Clay McLeod Chapman
Grief is one of the hardest things we can go through. We have to find […]