Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh confines voice within self-contempt and repression, tracing how interior distortion curdles into violence.
Orange
Curtis Garner maps first gay love across class and geography, staging adolescence as fragile negotiation between desire and belonging.
Tore All to Pieces
A rural Appalachian community unfolds through a sequence of linked episodes rather than a single narrative line.
Medusa: Or, Men Entombed in Winter
An isolated community of men forms around ritual, labour and shared belief.
Lie With Me
Philippe Besson renders first love through class, silence and the limits of naming desire. A short novel that looks slight and proves otherwise.
Yes, Daddy
Jonathan Parks-Ramage confronts abuse and power, pressing intensity to the point where consent and selfhood fracture.
Martyr!
A recovering addict studies martyrs and dreams of meaningful death. The novel follows the harder choice: staying alive.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
A son writes in a language his mother cannot read. Ocean Vuong’s novel examines how trauma and desire are fixed in sentences that cannot be answered.