Fiction

A spoiler-free review of The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon: Grace O'Malley told in three braided strands, a sea god who warns her of storms, and forty years of war with one English governor.

The most frightening object in this novel costs about four dollars at any office supply store. Yellow. College-ruled. A black pen laid across it,...

A spoiler-free review of Under Story by Chloe Benjamin: a grieving mycologist takes a dishwashing job at McMurdo Station, a dome of pink light appears over the ice, and the physicists arrive.

A spoiler-free review of The Black Orchid by Loreth Anne White: a luxury liner that sinks in the Santorini caldera, four narrators counting down to it, and a documentary crew picking through the wreck six years later.

A spoiler-free review of Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas: a town splits at the railway tracks, a philosophy teacher and a coal heir have five years of history, and a weather curfew turns into a weapon.