Unity and Uncertainty during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Charles B. Fancher’s debut novel Red Clay is a thrilling, gratifying tale that explores multigenerational conflicts during the Civil War […]
Dismantling the Master’s Clock Gives Readers a Good Deconstructed Time
What is time? Is it a linear process of seconds, minutes, hours, and days that directs our world and our […]
Tom Huddleston Brings David Lynch Home to Philadelphia
Tom Huddleston’s coffee-table book David Lynch: His Life, His World seeks to memorialize the famous once-Philadelphian filmmaker by interrogating the […]
Mourning, Memory and the Search for Angie in Everywhere I Look
In Everywhere I Look, Ona Gritz confronts one of the most agonizing questions a person can face: How do we […]
Anything Can Happen in the Desert: Death Valley by Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder’s novel Death Valley is a darkly comedic, psychedelic, and self-aware novel. Broder composes a story within a story, […]
A Darkly Funny and Intimate Shift at the Hospital
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas is a darkly funny and surprisingly intimate novel that features an […]
If The City Could Talk: A Tribute to Queer Love, Art, and Philadelphia
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Housemates is a charming and extrospective dissection of what it means to connect with others—through love, through […]
Secrets Verge on Their Expiration Dates in Elise Juska’s Reunion
In Elise Juska’s latest novel, Reunion, three friends converge at their pandemic-postponed twenty-fifth college reunion, where blistering secrets of marriage […]
Exploring Ownership vs. Love in C.J. Spataro’s More Strange than True
Shockingly funny and exquisitely tender, More Strange Than True by C.J Spataro is a romance novel perfectly balanced between comedy […]
A Horror Story Confronts the Ugliness of Hate
Debra K. Every weaponizes the senses in her debut novel, Deena Undone, a cocktail of horror that at once unsettles […]