On the morning of October 21, Publishers Lunch announced that Catapult Books was being sold and would wind down operations by the end of the month. According to the Catapult Union, the company ...

Our review of Sam Riviere's latest novel. Have you ever finished someone’s sentence, or voiced a thought that, to you, felt so singular, only to have the friend you’re talking to say, “I was just ...

Alyson Mosquera Dutemple’s debut collection of short fiction is composed of thirteen stories about loneliness, loss, resilience, growing up, and the natural world: in other words, it’s a book that ...

Doretta Lau’s We Are Underlings follows marketing associate Zita Chang as she navigates the tumultuous opening of Hong Kong’s first theme park devoted to death. When her boss dies just a week before ...

In Janasha Prabhu’s riveting debut novel, Monster in the Mirror, Jiah Rai lives in a small town where everyone knows her name, but not in a good way. Jiah is the niece of a murderer who a breathless ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this before: we live in uncertain times. Or, tell me if you’ve felt or heard this response to a news item: “It’s complicated.” I think it’s all over the place. Some of the most ...

Goodbye, Wisconsin, Glenway Wescott’s excellent story collection first published in 1928, is the latest title brought back to the world’s attention, thanks to Belt Publishing’s Revivals series. The ...

Earlier this year, the Dutch poet Lieke Marsman died at the age of 35 from a rare form of cartilage cancer. Marsman, who served as the Netherlands’ poet laureate from 2021-2023, left behind an ...

This month I had the pleasure of catching up with my long-time friend and colleague, Jihoon Park, to discuss his debut novel, Stickman. Jihoon and I went to grad school together, where we read each ...

Twenty years ago, the members of a reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. No sightings of the members were ever ...

Untold generations after abandoning a dying Earth, humanity now endures in a fleet of vast ships. In one ship’s Hold, where chained menial laborers live out their sunless days, a boy with a talent for ...

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