The Tenderest of Strings by Steven Schwartz

Cleaver, Winter 2022
A story of a marriage and a family in trouble, an exploration of how family ties constrain and sustain, stretch and snap.

Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine: A Novel by Klara Hveberg; translated by Alison McCullough

Washington Independent, November 25, 2021
A challenging, complex story of mathematics and misery.

A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery

New York Journal of Books, September 14, 2021
This novel offers the pleasures of a poetic travelogue and an homage to a place and culture.

The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken

Fiction Writers Review, April 12, 2021
The rubble of what happens is the real souvenir in these stories: memento mori, reminder not just of time gone by, but of death, always there, always approaching.

Wild Swims by Dorothy Nors

Fiction Writers Review, February 1, 2021
Reading these stories at times feels almost like complicit voyeurism—witnessing pain through a one-way mirror in the laboratory of Nors’s world.