September 2, 2026
Alicia Cahalane Lewis’s wholly arresting hybrid project, Nefertiti’s Tomb is an intriguing and ambitious exploration of history, philosophy, myth, and prose poetry.
The work is arranged in nine sections, with each poem (some untitled) centered on the page surrounded by significant white space. This visual suggests more is unknown/unsaid about these subjects than is known […]
August 25, 2026
In a near-future Puerto Rico, a determined New York police detective teams with local officers to solve a case with supernatural elements.
In the year 2041, Bronx detective Skye Noir arrives to help the San Juan Police Department solve a murder case. She meets with Lieutenant Bobby Chambers, who shares details between the current investigation […]
August 21, 2026
Among the many controversies concerning artificial intelligence, author Tim Kilpatrick adopts the view that AI will be instrumental in what he dubs the next “remake” of humankind. In Strategy and AI, he suggests that approaching AI from an historical perspective will ensure it’s used in proper context.
The author first introduces his theory of history’s […]
August 11, 2026
In his new novel, The Closing Window, Gregg Roman offers a searing account of the ongoing conflict among Iran, Israel and the United States.
The novel’s timeline spans 2018 to 2026 as Roman examines the conflict from multiple perspectives. The two main narrative threads follow several Iranian dissidents, including a nurse and an officer in […]
August 4, 2026
In this clear-eyed memoir, William Ledbetter remembers the selfless spirit of his older sister Nancy, who entered hospice after doctors diagnosed her with a terminal illness.
Growing up in New Jersey, Ledbetter and Nancy knew their designated roles—until high school, when their father left the family for his secretary. Teenage Ledbetter learned a formative lesson: […]
August 4, 2026
Reiton’s novelization of her subject’s true experience is a heartfelt tribute to a friend and a compelling exploration of a German soldier’s experiences in WWII.
Reiton imaginatively reconstructs memories shared by her friend Heinz, who was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S. Early scenes from the viewpoint of Heinz’s mother and the adventures […]
July 21, 2026
Set in the 1970s, Green is the story of a young man working the amateur wrestling circuit as he struggles with the pain of the dysfunctional home life he left behind.
Jamie Lally arrives in Montreal planning to take in a wrestling match but finds himself recruited to help set up matches and then referee […]
July 14, 2026
Sprawling, sophisticated and eerily prophetic, Salvatore Cataudella’s The Noema Field is a collection of visionary fiction exploring the potential future and evolutions of artificial intelligence.
Offering a deeply reflective and original perspective on AI (dubbed CG, in these stories) and the elevation of consciousness beyond the human mind, these interrelated stories easily stand alone but […]
July 7, 2026
This meticulously-researched report by Collin Hogue-Spears, who as a senior manager at Amazon Web Services worked with Chinese government auditors on cloud compliance, chronicles the rise of “the world’s most extensive, governed AI ecosystem.”
The author begins with Baidu, the Chinese search engine which in 2013 was processing over five billion search queries a day, […]
July 7, 2026
In this exceptional memoir, Michael Norkus introduces us to the woman he married, then retraces the life that led him to her, resulting in a hybrid: part coming-of-age story, part love story.
Norkus hopscotches back and forth between his formative years in postwar Germany’s Ruhr Valley and Harvard in the early 1970s, where he courted […]