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There are two boys in an attic, and one boy has a knife. It’s a little one, not much longer than either boy’s pinky. The boy with the knife has short black hair and thick glasses. He is pointing the knife at the short boy, his long blond hair and thin glasses. It might not…
At once a dystopian bildungsroman, a science fiction epic spanning millennia, and a philosophical thought experiment grappling with the ethics of AI, gene editing, and other burgeoning technologies, Deni Ellis Béchard’s We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine considers the meaning of human existence in a future when problems such as mortality, pain, scarcity, and…
Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Mary Troy recently released her sixth book, In the Sky Lord, a collection of ten stories that slice open the beating heart of the Midwest to reveal a world in which characters work to understand the paradox of modern community. In language that sings with both compassion and…
With Thunderhead, her third novel, Miranda Darling rewrites Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) for contemporary readers, exchanging the genteel drawing rooms of post-WWI London for contemporary suburbia’s gleaming middle-class kitchens stocked with pricey appliances and organic produce. At the story’s heart is Winona Dalloway, a charmingly anxiety-ridden thirty-something who writes romance novels in harried spurts…
In Aruni Kashyap’s collection of thirteen short stories, The Way You Want to Be Loved, characters tied to Assam confront familial guilt, racism, homophobia, and the isolation endured by young people living far from home. As the stories cross oceans and time periods, Kashyap keeps readers engaged with his impeccably developed characters as they forge…