Bill Littlefield
In this ambitious Czech novel, a detective’s inquiry into an apparent suicide becomes a meditation on violence against women, historical memory, and the possibility of joy.
In this novel, a brilliant European jurist, an addictive little blue pill, and an elusive conspiracy yield a dazzling but sometimes exhausting exercise in literary complexity.
In “The Hard Path to Unity,” former congressman Barney Frank offers a sharp account of Trump-era politics and liberal disarray—but his call for patience with progressive “dissidents” invites serious resistance.
These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.
Wilbert L. Cooper examines the paradox of Black police officers seeking safety and status inside an institution shaped by racial violence.
In Neil Van Leeuwen’s challenging book, belief and imagination overlap in ways that are provocative, unsettling, and unexpectedly illuminating.
“The Yahoo Boys” dissects a global grift fueled by digital intimacy, economic despair, and willful belief.
A powerful new book exposes how the fear of Black liberation shaped the American legal order—and how the legacy of the slave patrol endures today.
Jean Trounstine’s debut blends hard-won insight with high drama in a prison story of guilt, resistance, and survival.
Ross Barkan is a good enough of a writer to have avoided the trap of making this novel just an anti-Trump protest.
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