literature

The roses were decaying, petal by petal. Green leaves overtaken by patches and mottling spasms of brown and grey. The edges and undersides crinkling...

Our Baby Was Born Premature (the Same Way He Was Conceived) by Paul Alexander is a charming and honest debut novel that showcases the true triumphs...

By contributor Chantelle Spicer I recently designated some time to read a novel before the pressures of midterms, research, and paper writing took...

By contributor Philip Gordon When I played role-playing video games as a kid, the characters I would make were all the same—game-appropriate,...

By contributor Spenser Smith Mildred Tremblay’s The Thing About Dying also has a thing or two to say about living; for every haunting line that...

Andy Weir’s book The Martian encapsulates the wondrous  question of “what if” in character, plot, and the narrative story, creating a piece where...