The Montreal Gazette declares that Novakovich’s short story collection is “packed with images that can take your breath away."

On Lit Hub, Yiyun Li on why reading the work of Pakistani novelist Hussain made her “see things long gone, and also things to come.”

In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Weiner’s travel diary from October 2015 in Berlin dissects the city’s role during the refugee crisis and the consequences of “a political plight becoming a state of mind.”

The Huffington Post calls Wray’s novel about family and scientific mystery "a big, enveloping story that’s also tenderly wrought."

On Public Books, Imani Perry reflects on Clifford Thompson’s work alongside other memoirs by black writers published in 2015, deeming Thompson’s Twin of Blackness “as much assertion as reflection.”

Offutt delves into why writing his memoir My Father, the Pornographer was “a case of realizing I can’t shy away from anything.”

Sante discusses his favorite historical Parisian celebrities and the changing faces of Western cities.

The Rumpus praises Offutt’s ability to “reach beyond his own feeling to sympathize with a man many readers would prefer to demonize” and deems My Father, the Pornographer “contemporary memoir at its best.”

In The New Republic, Alexander Chee explores the background of historical fiction and explains why writing in the genre helped him "simply be as a writer."

Chee discusses how feminism and his background in LGBTQ activism informed The Queen of the Night.