During World War I, five soldiers sent into No Man’s Land discover a fallen angel that might alter the course of the conflict. Confronted with fear, desire, and mistrust, they must decide whether to cooperate or give in to their impulses, setting off intense moral and psychological tensions. The story blends battlefield realism with a supernatural encounter as the men struggle to survive and confront what the angel represents.

During a global pandemic, a young woman struggles to hold her family together after a devastating loss while contending with a mysterious illness that scrambles her thoughts and memories. As she drifts from her previous life—disoriented, unable to recognize friends, and haunted by repeating sounds and sensations—she tries to remake her identity and find ways to keep living amid grief and confusion.

A collaborative, metafictional novel that layers books-within-books, documents and multilingual passages to trace a project of literary creation and identity. Blending contemporary politics, cultural history and unconventional narrative techniques, it explores the process of becoming a writer and the risks and obsessions that drive artistic ambition.

A darkly comic novel about a forty-something journalist who, after the collapse of print, takes a job at a bookstore in a rapidly gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood. Through his caustic attempts to write and the humiliations of service work, the book skewers gentrification, aging, professional envy, and the uneasy place of literature in the digital era.

Ben, a drifting fact-checker at a New York gossip magazine, spends his days noticing small, ordinary wonders until an irreverent young woman arrives and nudges him to reexamine art, ambition, and intimacy. The novel quietly follows his emotional awakening and the messy, unexpected ways relationships reshape everyday life.

A theoretical meditation that reconceives images not as static representations but as living, circulating agents embedded in networks of perception, technology and power; it argues for an “ecology” that tracks how images attract and redistribute attention, interact with viewers and other images, mutate through technical and institutional media, and produce collective effects and political consequences, drawing on examples from art, cinema, advertising and archives to show how attending to an image’s agency and environment reshapes our understanding of aesthetics, mediation and public life.

An aging A-list actor suddenly gives away his blockbuster earnings and begins a relationship with a much younger model, while his longtime non-famous friend—often his lover—reflects on their two-decade bond. Told through alternating perspectives that include an aspiring filmmaker writing about them, the novel examines luck, fame, money and the shifting landscape of contemporary Hollywood without revealing key plot twists.

Little Lazarus follows teenagers Francois and Eleanor, restless outsiders in the small Southern town of Harmony, whose lives are forever changed one drunken night. Their parallel stories are woven together with the long, traveling perspective of two clairvoyant tortoises—Lazarus and Little Lazarus—whose centuries-spanning journeys and varied caretakers (from a billionaire to generations of men and even a dog named Pony) bear witness to human love, loss, and longing. The novel is a lyrical, character-driven exploration of connection and memory.

Angela, a former high-school state champion runner and college dropout, works as a receptionist at an abortion clinic until a new “heartbeat law” criminalizes most abortions and her boss is arrested. In response she stages a solitary hunger strike in the boarded-up clinic, drawing in an ex, former patients, and opponents—while the book examines bodily autonomy, community responsibility, and the personal costs of political change.

Over the course of a single day, an unnamed man nearing the end of his career and marriage visits a country house with a young realtor. The house feels saturated with the memory of its former owner, Helen, whose stories present him with a tempting alternative way of life. As the day unfolds, he confronts who he is and what he might be willing to give up in pursuit of happiness.

A disaffected young woman quits her job as a bookseller and sets out to become a full‑time narrator, turning daily life—apartments, studios, parties, the post office—into material for fiction. She chronicles the experiment of living inside language, testing the fantasy of uninterrupted interiority and the ways everyday reality intrudes. The novel follows her detours, psychic shifts, and surprising encounters as she explores what it means to enter and inhabit fiction.

Sixty-three-year-old PJ Halliday, a lottery winner coping with loss and health problems, decides to drive from Massachusetts to Arizona to win back his high school sweetheart. When he unexpectedly becomes guardian to his estranged brother’s grandchildren, he sets out on a cross-country road trip with his adrift adult daughter and a therapy cat named Pancakes who seems to predict death. The journey forces PJ to confront his past, try parenting again, and search for a second chance at love.

In the 19th-century Northwest, grieving alchemist Gentle Montgomery and his teenage nephew Kitt set out to track a legendary giant salamander whose blood might power an alchemical formula to revive Gentle’s dead friend. Their journey through a haunted wilderness brings surreal visions and draws the attention of a violent hunter, a corrupt judge, and a doomsday cult, forcing them to confront the creature, the strange dreams it provokes, and the fragile bonds between them. The story blends supernatural horror, alchemy, and a meditation on grief and human connection.

True Mistakes is a debut poetry collection in which Lena Moses‑Schmitt examines consciousness, identity, and time through moments of daily life—walking, painting, working—and the emotional terrain of grief, anxiety, and joy. The poems probe the boundary between art and reality, often reflecting on paintings as a way to explore memory and selfhood, and reframe misperceptions or errors as openings for imagination rather than failure.

In 1996, Harvard student Anna falls for Christoph, a visiting German, and follows him to Germany. Their burgeoning relationship is shadowed by the wartime histories of their grandfathers—Anna’s American GI who kept a wartime scrapbook and Christoph’s grandfather who fought for Nazi Germany. As Anna travels between the U.S. and Germany, family memories and the legacy of World War II intrude on their present, forcing them to reckon with how the past shapes their lives.

Old college friends reunite for a summer at a family beach house on Buzzards Bay, hoping to reconnect as they navigate midlife. The mood shifts when one friend vanishes and a mysterious, seductive visitor arrives, while eerie break‑ins and strange disturbances suggest someone—or something—lurks near the marsh. Tensions and buried secrets rise as the group confronts how much their friendships and lives have changed.

Fools for Love is a short-story collection about the messy, funny, and sometimes sad ways people connect. The stories follow a range of characters—lovers, exes, parents, and a precocious baby—whose lives intersect as they navigate desire, attachment, and self-discovery. Set in places from Paris to the East Village, the book uses wit and empathy to explore romantic complications without tidy resolutions.

In the 1960s, Edith travels from school to rural Italy to support her sister Lydia through the final weeks of pregnancy and is tasked with making a single phone call that will determine the child’s future. Decades later in Ireland, a now-divorced Edith is drawn into a quiet mystery when her friend Maebh receives a call from a man claiming to be her long-lost brother. The novel explores family ties, migration, and the search for belonging without revealing what happens.

A young trans woman haunted by sleep-paralysis visions and a growing, more powerful presence flees New York to an all-trans women’s commune in rural Indiana founded by her ex. What begins as a refuge quickly reveals secretive residents, unsettling rituals, and escalating supernatural threats, forcing her to confront both external monsters and the traumas that follow her.

Cleric Chih and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant arrive in the river town of Baolin to investigate a legendary famine. As they follow stories of strange dishes and starving streets, they’re drawn into a sinister magistrate’s mansion and must uncover what hunger has done to the town before darker forces — and desperate people — consume it.

Jazmina Barrera digs through archives and fragments to sketch the life of Mexican writer Elena Garro, confronting gaps and contradictions that resist a tidy portrait. The book presents Garro as a restless artist—a writer associated with magical realism, a dancer and divination devotee, an activist and complicated partner and mother—while situating her life within Mexico City’s social and cultural history and reflecting on the limits of biography.

Set during the 1936 Arab Revolt in Mandatory Palestine, The Lord follows Tareq, a young man from Jaffa whose travels and apparent miracles win him a following and draw the attention of the British authorities. The story is framed by Miss Alice Rhodes, an English missionary who once taught him and later recounts his life, and by the British intelligence officer determined to stop him. The novel offers an intimate, atmospheric portrait of Palestinian society and the tensions of colonial rule without revealing key outcomes.