Jane tells the story of Nelson’s aunt, Jane, who was murdered before she was born. The Red Parts tells of the trial of Jane’s killer.

Journey to Nowhere initially drew me because it’s an analysis of the Jonestown Massacre and the months and years leading to it.

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone collects Thompson's essential articles for the magazine, published between the 1970s and the mid-2000s.

Naked City is the first collection of Weegee's images and a not-to-be missed gritty celebration of urban life in all of its joys and sorrows.

Unusual Fragments features five stories from Japanese writers you may have heard of but are also off the beaten path themselves.

The Infamous Gilberts was published just in 2026, but there’s a feeling to it that renders a much older feeling to its pages.

Hidden Haunts is a collection of spooky houses and locations that are both off the beaten path, and mostly able to be travelled to.

My Men follows the life of Brynhild Storset who eventually becomes Belle Gunness, arguably the first serial killer in American history.

Paradise Rot is a fever dream of decay and the juxtaposition of awakening and discovering blurred boundaries

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is one of those plays that you should take the opportunity to see at least once in your life.

In The Book of Evidence, Freddie Montgomery (a stand it for MacArthur himself) writes about a murder he committed while he sits in a cell.

In Lives of the Saint, a young woman that has come to one of life’s great turning points: What is she going to make of her youth?

It’s tempting to view Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ as a simple story of a man turning into a bug for no reason.

Cool for You is about a young queer woman coming of age in working class Boston and chafing at the world one inherits from their parents.

Fair Play is a slim volume of several vignettes about the lives of two artists that share an attic passageway between their apartments.

Weight of the Earth is an edited transcription of the recorded journals Wojnarowicz made in the years 1981, 1982, 1988, and 1989.

Grace Period is about a man named Mateo Silva selling his childhood home that he hasn’t seen in over twenty years.

In The Suicides,the narrative follows a journalist investigating several suicides which may or may not be connected.

Reading My Prizes is comforting, because even though Bernhard has reached that pinnacle of success, he still has problems.

The Devil in the Flesh is a twisting story of obsession and the destruction that follows when people decide to throw morality to the wind.

JR Ackerley’s My Father and Myself examines the complicated ties between parents and children and the effects when those ties are strained.

What I did enjoy about Death in Venice was how oppressive Mann manages to make the atmosphere of the plague-ridden city.

In Motion Sickness, it is a young woman who is on this journey, wandering Europe and beyond trying to find herself.

I was drawn to playwright Sam Shepard’s Motel Chronicles because I have a love of photos and descriptions of old motels.

Suzanne and Louise are Guibert’s two aging great aunts who lived alone together in an apartment for more than forty years.

Forbidden Notebook begins when Valeria Cossati, a bourgeois housewife with a part-time job, buys a notebook from the local tobacconist.

In the Fate of Mary Rose, Blackwood uses crime to explore both violence against women and female-perpetrated violence.

Cookie Mueller is one of those people that become the embodiments of specific times, places, scenes, and stories.

In Seduction and Betrayal, Hardwick analyses the work of the Brontës, to the women of Ibsen’s plays, to Zelda Fitzgerald and Sylvia Plath.

It’s important that one does not expect completely linear stories when one picks up At the Bottom of the River.

I was especially excited to see that this collected volume included a book of Hughes’ poetry, The Weary Blues.

Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver is her first and only collection, published in 2024 though Oliver died in 1966 at only 22.

The Harlem Book of the Dead is a sampling of the work of James Van Der Zee, who was both a conventional as well as a funerary photographer.

John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas is describing Dunne’s dark season. He’s forty-two and feels unmoored in his career and his life.

It’s best not to come to Perec’s The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise thinking that you’re going to encounter a traditional novel.