Philly Chapbook Review publishes information on new literary novels and short story collections weekly (prose chapbooks will be covered in a monthly post). Every Tuesday, we publish an update about what titles we know are releasing in the following week.
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Music Against the Night, Yiyun Li
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
In Dublin, as the eighteenth century nears its end, a musical virtuoso comes of age. John Field, an awkward and sensitive child, is preternaturally gifted, and his family envisions him becoming the next Mozart. His talent takes him far—to England, France, and then Russia, where he becomes a famous pianist and composes dreamy melodies that enchant the night air. John calls them nocturnes, but the prodigy who immortalizes them is Chopin.
Oceans away in Pondicherry, Adelaide Percheron has a startling rise of her own. Orphaned at a young age, she is raised by her enterprising grandmother. Without a connection to aristocracy or the luxury of riches, only marriage seems to offer prosperity—until she sets her sights on a pianoforte. Driven by her secret love of music and a desire to see the world, she engineers her exodus, escaping to Paris and Moscow, as Napoleon’s army sets out to conquer the continent.
Peopled by rival prodigies, irate tutors, begrudging guardians, and true-to-life masters of the trade, Yiyun Li’s polyphonic novel depicts two aspiring musicians in pursuit of success. Their struggles unfold amid political and artistic upheaval and pit them against the forces of their time. As they each try to chart a path between talent and genius, success and legacy, profit and passion, they must decide what, and even who, is worth sacrificing along the way. Music Against the Night comes to life with the sweep and dimension of the Romantic era and a deep understanding of the demands of living and of art.
Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and the memoirs Things in Nature Merely Grow and Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Faulkner Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham–Campbell Prize, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Solace House, Will Maclean
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
For Alex Lane’s wealthy university friends, the summer break stretches out before them, full of promise and fabulous plans. But for Alex, broke as usual, going home is not an option. So when the university offers him an unusual summer job clearing out a dilapidated Victorian mansion, Solace House, he jumps at the chance.
Alex joins an unlikely crew of students, from stoner Clive to uptight, short-tempered Helen, and the extremely peculiar Adam. Alex is particularly drawn to mercurial, red-headed Ella, and as the students begin sorting through piles of old newspapers and magazines, dusty antiques, and esoteric junk, Alex and Ella become enthralled by the elaborate and eerie journals of the house’s former owner, Edwin Flayne. In these diaries, Flayne details his obsession with his missing mother and his belief in a mysterious realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions on how it might be reached.
As the students gradually uncover the house’s secrets, the rift between those who want to delve further and those who believe they’ve already gone too far grows ever wider.
Will Maclean is a screenwriter whose first novel, The Apparition Phase, was shortlisted for The McKitterick Prize. Solace House is his American debut. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
Ramblings in the West: Footnotes, Marx Yeh
Publisher: Kaya Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback
In Ramblings in the West, the third of Max Yeh’s book-length “pseudo-fictions,” time and space collapse into a continuous, digressive stream where the giants of the past become everyday people. Lying on his couch while his back heals, the unnamed narrator imagines his life as a travel memoir in the mode of Herodotus, Montesquieu or Goldsmith. He does so through the repeated invocation of the long-held Western tradition of using foreign visitors to bridge the East–West divide. These feats of perspectival dexterity make it possible for him to drive Jean-Jacques Rousseau from the Syracuse Airport and listen to Isaac Newton lecture on the laws of motion and chat with Charles Darwin as he tries to understand who and why he is. Elliptical and encyclopedic, Ramblings in the West blends travel memoir and dream journal to show how our lives carry the story of civilization itself.
Max Yeh is the author of a trilogy of novels: The Beginning of the East (1992), Stolen Oranges (2017) and Ramblings in the West: Footnotes (2025). Yeh was born in China, educated in the United States, and has lived in Europe and Mexico. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and New Mexico State University. He lives in New Mexico.
Not Yet Gods, Gord Sellar, Djuna, Jihyun Park (Tr)
Publisher: Kaya Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback
Following the landmark English-language publication of Everything Good Dies Here, Kaya Press delivers more provocative thought experiments by pseudonymous author Djuna, whose writings on internet culture have attracted a cult following in South Korea. Not Yet Gods explores the universe-shattering effects of teenage anger cross-pollinated with radiation-induced psychic powers, unscrupulous governments and corporate avarice.
In the aftermath of a nuclear explosion set off in North Korea, an ordinary South Korean high school classroom becomes ground zero for the discovery of a radical new source of energy: children capable of conducting and amplifying the telepathic and telekinetic powers of those around them. Told as a series of interlinked stories, Djuna’s fractally unfolding thought experiments interrogate the nature of power, disability and illusion in the potential end of history.
Film critic and speculative fiction writer Djuna first appeared as an online presence in the early 1990s. They have published nine short story collections, three novels and numerous essays and uncollected stories.
Jihyun Park is a translator and filmmaker whose debut feature, The Music of Jo Hyeja (2012), was the first Korean-language film adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Gord Sellar is a Canadian writer, translator and professor who teaches at Korea University.
The End of Everything, M. John Harrison
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover
Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artifacts that wash up from the Channel. It’s been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, an entire continent has been mislaid. It feels like the end.
Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can’t keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artifact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows. The End of Everything is a slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding, from the peerless master of contemporary fiction.
M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of many novels, including Climbers, The Course of the Heart, and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again. Over the last four decades, Harrison has carved out a stellar career across a number of literary forms, and is acclaimed by such writers as Angela Carter, Deborah Levy and Iain Banks. From 1968 to 1975, he was literary editor of the influential British science fiction magazine New Worlds. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2025, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in England.
The Tulip Poplars, Silas House
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
Amos and Tom fall in love while working in the tobacco fields during the hot summers of the early 1900s, yet Tom cannot shake his strict religious upbringing nor the responsibilities of his family’s farm. His longtime friend Maeve also pines for a man she can’t have, lest she endanger his already tenuous life in a town and world shaped by racial lines. How do you live a life that feels untrue, and at what point do you risk everything? The Tulip Poplars is a gorgeous and moving novel spanning most of the 20th century, centering on four people trying to find happiness in a world that demands conventional choices. House tells a deeply intimate story of faith and doubt, race and class, sexual desire and the longing to be good when you’ve been taught that you are evil for loving who you love. Based on the story of an ancestor, House’s new novel takes us from NYC to Southern cities to Appalachia and will leave you with a bigger heart.
Silas House was a finalist for a 2024 Grammy Award, winner of the 2022 Duggins Prize, and is a two-time winner of the Southern Book Prize. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, the New York Times, the Advocate, Time, Garden & Gun, and other publications. He teaches at Berea College and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing.
The Man With Many Names: Stories, Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Tr)
Publisher: Liveright
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
Exhibiting a world-renowned author at his most playful and profound, The Man with Many Names captures the peculiarities of existence across forty tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria, in and around this fading world.
On a train through the poppy-laden Balkans, strangers spend their time sharing stories only to be lost in translation. A lonely drifter becomes convinced he’s on television one frigid New Year’s Eve, his every move suddenly watched by millions. A girl born with two different eyes—one seeing only the past, the other seeing only the future—strives for the unattainable. A father hangs laundry between two cherry trees and sets off an absurd and historic series of events. What can we do in the last minutes of a dying sun? How will we recognize the faces from the final days? Lingering between these pages is a flaneur named Gaustine, a familiar trickster known to longtime Gospodinov fans.
The Man with Many Names echoes boldly through time and place, all the while remaining uncannily attuned to the profound nature of human connection—how one person’s single gesture can ripple through another’s life like fate. Masterfully translated by Angela Rodel, this is another wildly inventive contribution from “one of the indispensable writers of our times” (International Booker Prize Jury).
Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Angela Rodel won the International Booker for translation and has received honors such as the PEN Translation Fund Grant. She lives in Sofia.
Scene City, Róisín Tapponi
Publisher: Verso
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Romy, an art history student, is committed to a headlong and accelerating pursuit of pleasure in the rarefied air of the capital’s art scene. Her sense of self fraying in this whirligig of decadence, she discovers in writing a way to keep her feet on the ground. Soon, Romy and her merry band of gays discover they are immersed in, of all unlikely things, the maelstrom of a developing novel.
Tapping into Laurence Sterne as much as it does Eve Babitz and Truman Capote, this infectious debut explores authorship and identity. It asks whether the pursuit of meaning can (or should) ever get in the way of a good time.
Róisín Tapponi is a writer and film programmer. She is the Founder of Shasha Movies, a streaming platform for artist film and video from South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA). She featured in Forbes’s 30 Under 30 Europe for Entertainment in 2023. At twenty-five, Tapponi graduated with a PhD in the History of Art from the University of St Andrews. Her art writing has been published most recently in books by Phaidon, Gagosian, and Sadie Coles HQ. Scene City is Tapponi’s debut novel. She is based in London, where she moved as a child with her family.
Foreign: A Novel of Land and Longing, Sonora Jha
Publisher: HarperVia
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Katya Misra leads a carefully constructed academic life in Seattle—until one evening, she learns her adolescent son Kabir has run away to India to find the father he has never met. Contemptuous of her mother country, Katya is determined to bring her son home.
Foreign then moves to a small Indian village gripped by an epidemic of farmers taking their own lives. Here, Katya finds Kabir in the care of the family of Bajirao Andhale, a farmer turned desperate from debt, drought, and the crushing costs it will take to get his daughter married. When Bajirao’s wife Gayatri-bai saves Kabir’s life, she in turn seeks Katya’s help to stop Bajirao from taking his own. As their fates intertwine, each must encounter the others’ struggles—and ask who truly belongs, and who must let go.
A reckoning with humanity’s neglect of those closest to the land, Foreign is an engrossing, achingly tender, and urgent depiction of modern-day India.
Sonora Jha is is the award-winning author of the novels The Laughter and Foreign as well as the memoir How to Raise a Feminist Son. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and literary anthologies, on the BBC, and elsewhere. Formerly a journalist in India and Singapore, she is now a Loyola Endowed Professor at Seattle University and lives in Seattle.
Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah, Miljenko Jergovic, Ellen Elias-Bursac (Tr), Mirza Puric (Tr)
Publisher: Archipelago
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah begins from a point of listening—turning up the radio, dragging a cafe chair closer to the man with the saz, dropping a record needle. In the Sarajevo of Miljenko Jergović’s childhood, folk songs permeated life. Their dusky melodies filled car rides, scored television programs, and echoed down alleyways, hummed drunkenly as daybreak glazed the city’s steeples and minarets.
In these nineteen stories, Jergović imagines what might have inspired such wistful tunes, crafting a catalog of source material. The reader is loosed from her contemporary seat as relics of an old world arise. Time slows to an ancient cadence. Here lives become totemic, fate hangs like a scarf over the shoulderblades of heroes and scoundrels alike, while misfortune, hubris, and luck transform individuals into a collective cry. Like an accordion which unfolds to fill a room with sound, the book expands and compresses—by turns bawdy, brutal, funny and wise. Drawn from deep wells of folklore and collective storytelling, Jergovic weaves together an extraordinary ethnography that manages to both critique the imperial domination and strife that has marked the Balkan region for centuries, and to display, carefully and tenderly, the lives of individuals, be they Christian or Muslim. Lives that (inshallah) seem to never end, in that boundless space of myth.
Born in Sarajevo in 1966, Miljenko Jergović is one of the most prolific and widely translated ex-Yugoslav writers. His poetry, fiction, essays, and columns grapple with the legacy of the 1990s Bosnian war, Balkan history, and the tension between personal and official historical narratives. His landmark collection of stories Sarajevo Marlboro received the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb.
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation of Ivana Bodrožić’s novel Sons, Daughters was given the EBRD Literature Prize in 2025. She has taught in the Harvard University Slavic Department, worked in the language services of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Mirza Purić is a literary translator, editor, and musician. His recent book-length translations include Marko Pogačar’s Neon South (Sandorf Passage) and Faruk Šehić’s Under Pressure (Istros Books). He has published essays in Agni, Asymptote, Literary Hub, EuropeNow, The Well Review, and elsewhere.
The Story Baker, Carsten Henn
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
Though she only just started her temporary job at the village bakery, former ballet dancer Sofie already wants to quit from day one. Her career abruptly ended after an injury threatened any and all chances of success, and losing her most beloved passion has thrown her life off track.
Yet there’s something about the rhythms of the bakery that captivates her. Fascinated, Sofie watches old Italian baker Giacomo at work, and discovers that baking bread is almost like a dance: the dough is kneaded on beat, the rotation of the hands a steady rhythm, the swing of the hips like a practiced routine. To her own surprise, Sofie comes to see the little bakery as far more than just a place of work: it slowly transforms into a reprieve. It is here that she discovers the wisdom of a simple man, the joy of small things and the courage to embrace change.
A bestselling phenomenon, The Story Baker is the delightfully charming small-town story of one woman who finds solace, love, and community in the most unlikely of places.
Carsten Henn lives with his family, cats, bees and chickens in the Rhineland. In addition to publishing numerous successful crime novels and romantic comedies, he is also a wine journalist. The Door-to-Door Bookstore (“Der Buchspazierer”) spent over two years on the SPIEGEL bestseller list, has been translated into nearly 40 languages, and was successfully adapted into a film starring Christoph Maria Herbst.
I Never Knew You At All, Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
Simone Hartwell has made trade-offs to build a life she loves, including giving up her once promising career as a journalist. But as her husband, Alex, stands to finally take the reins of the family business—a chain of high-end grocery stores his grandfather started—Simone vows to settle contently into her role supporting him and raising their son Langston.
But when her college ex and first love, Kwame, resurfaces in her life, her carefully constructed domestic bliss threatens to crumble under the weight of old feelings and new dramas. Kwame, who built the journalism career Simone once dreamed of, is investigating a decade’s old mystery of a young Black man who disappeared from The Tate School—the same elite prep school that Alex’s family has attended for generations. When he discovers a startling connection to the Hartwells, it sets everyone on a collision course that will unearth long-held secrets, test loyalties, and force a major reckoning between the past and the future.
Thorny, urgent, and nuanced, I Never Knew You at All is a story of love, forgiveness, and redemption that asks provocative questions: Who deserves forgiveness? Can people really change? And ultimately—what does it take to hold a marriage together…or break it apart?
Christine Pride is a writer, editor, and longtime publishing veteran. She’s held editorial posts at many different trade imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, Hyperion, and Simon & Schuster. As an editor, Christine has published many bestselling and critically acclaimed novels and memoirs. In addition to writing novels, she does select editorial work, proposal/content development, and teaching and coaching.
Jo Piazza is a bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist. She is the national and international bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction books including We Are Not Like Them, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, The Knockoff, and How to Be Married. Her work has been published in ten languages in twelve countries and four of her books have been optioned for film and television. A former editor, columnist, and travel writer with Yahoo, Current TV, and the Daily News (New York), her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York magazine, Glamour, Elle, Time, Marie Claire, The Daily Beast, and Slate. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in economics and communication, a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, and a master’s in religious studies from New York University.
A Short History of Longans, Mirandi Riwoe
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication Date: October 14, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
‘They said you were a murdering bushranger.’ It’s the winter of 2049 and Daniel is elderly and long isolated. After yet another devastating storm, this time destroying his beloved longan tree, he finds his fragile peace threatened by a growing friendship with a widowed neighbour and the appearance of a young reporter digging into a shameful event buried deep in his past. Across the autumn of 2000, the summer of 1949 and the restless springs of the mid-nineteenth century, the tangled roots of Daniel’s family tree unfurl – to the moment an Irish orphan finds her fate entwined with that of a Chinese bushranger. Intriguing and beautifully written, this dazzling novel spanning centuries and generations unravels the secrets and memories of one Irish-Chinese family to explore what it means to belong – to place, to ancestors, to ourselves.
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her second novel, Sunbirds, was set in wartime Java during World War II and was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award. Her debut novella, The Fish Girl, was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies and lives in Brisbane.
Paving the Sea, Rashid El-Daif, Nicholas R. Lobo (Tr), Alfred J. Naddaff (Tr)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication Date: October 15, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
A tale of two idealists chasing modernity from Ottoman Mount Lebanon to the West, only to find that the road to enlightenment is as futile—and human—as paving the sea.
What does it take to build a modern nation—and what happens when that project fails? By turns wryly absurd, unsettling, and deeply moving, Rashid El-Daif’s novel Paving the Sea narrates a quest for the impossible and the disillusionment with the transformative promises of the nation. At the center of the story is Jurji Zaidan, the real-life intellectual giant of the Arab Nahda, the cultural renaissance that sought to remake the Arabic-speaking world through modern science and secular thought. Zaidan and his fictionalized friend Fares Hashem attend university where the two young idealists campaign to bring Darwin’s theory of natural selection into the curriculum. When their reward is expulsion, they depart provincial Mount Lebanon and Fares sets out for the West with grand ambitions. But the pursuit of enlightenment proves far more complicated than either imagined.
El-Daif tells this story with a sardonic narrator who comments freely on events, collapsing the distance between past and present, the Ottoman era and our own. The result is a work of historiographic metafiction that parodies the well-worn binary of East and West, tradition and modernity, while refusing to settle for either nostalgia or easy answers. A masterwork of contemporary Arabic literature, Paving the Sea brings wit and satirical intelligence to profound questions about migration, identity, and the universal desire to belong somewhere that may no longer exist.
Satirist, linguist, professor, and novelist, Rashid El-Daif is one of the leading voices on the contemporary Arabic literature scene. He has published three collections of poetry and numerous novels that have been translated into more than fourteen languages. Described as the Arab world’s answer to Umberto Eco, his works represent a painful break with grand ideologies and grapple with the collapse of the initial project of Arab modernity. El-Daif teaches creative writing at the American University of Beirut.
Nicholas R. Lobo is a doctoral student in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He earned his master’s in Islamic history at the University of Oxford and has worked for several years as an Arabic-English translator at the Arab Center in Doha, Qatar.
Alfred J. Naddaff is a Knight-Hennessy scholar and PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department at Stanford University. He earned his master’s in Arabic language and Near Eastern studies at the American University of Beirut and writes for various news publications.
1966: Short Stories, Xiaoni Wang, Eleanor Goodman (Tr), Ping Zhu (Tr)
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Publication Date: October 15, 2026
Format: Hardcover / Paperback / eBook
The year 1966 saw the start of a decade of social and political upheaval in China. In these eleven stories by poet Wang Xiaoni, the horrors, confusion, and utter disruption of the Cultural Revolution are just beginning. An educated family of six in the city is forced to get rid of their beloved collection of books, a starving abandoned boy obsessed with trains waits for his brother to return from Beijing, and an elderly and mentally unstable man is desperate to hide a personal history that has suddenly become a death sentence.
Wang brings a light touch to this painful subject matter, balancing a pervading sense of unreality with telling details that ring true to life even now. Elegantly rendered in English by award-winning poet and translator Eleanor Goodman, 1966 offers powerful, moving, and deeply human vignettes illuminating how this key moment in Chinese history was experienced by ordinary citizens.
Wang Xiaoni was born in 1955 in Changchun, Jilin Province. She has published more than forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, and poetry.
Eleanor Goodman is an American poet and translator. She is the author of Lessons in Glass and the translator of Iron Moon and Wang Xiaoni’s Something Crosses My Mind.
Liberal Arts, David McGlynn
Publisher: TriQuarterly
Publication Date: October 15, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Two centuries old and covered in ivy, Wisconsin’s Buchanan College is populated by an eclectic mix of students, staff, and professors hailing from the nearby suburbs to the far corners of the globe. From the outside, Buchanan seems an idyllic world of higher learning. Yet behind its bucolic exterior, a series of interconnected dramas play out: a slew of first-year students mysteriously disappear within days of moving in; an injured hockey star discovers an unlikely fountain of youth; an alumna returns to campus after fifty years in the hope of reconnecting with a former love. And throughout the novel we follow the story of Jenny Ramirez, a social worker and the wife of a popular professor, who commits an act that alters how the college sees her, and how she sees herself. Over a span of four years, from orientation to graduation, the characters in Liberal Arts are forced to weigh their ideals and aspirations against the harsh and often ridiculous realities of the world, and are left asking what, if anything, a liberal arts education has left to teach them.
David McGlynn is the author of the novel Everything We Could Do, also from TriQuarterly Books, the story collection The End of the Straight and Narrow, and the memoirs A Door in the Ocean and One Day You’ll Thank Me. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The American Scholar, and has been reviewed on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. He teaches at Lawrence University and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Butter Road, Jaclyn Gilbert
Publisher: Acre Books
Publication Date: October 15, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, taking the students hostage and shooting ten girls before turning his weapon on himself. Set twelve years after this event, largely in the village of Nickel Mines, Butter Road explores the long-reaching ramifications of tragedy through the imagined lives of three women: Emma Walsh, an eighteen-year-old survivor of the shooting; her mother, Ruth, who lost her eldest daughter to the violence; and Sara Caldwell, an “English” outsider and wife of a doctor researching genetic disorders in the Amish population.
At the novel’s outset, Sara enlists young Emma for housework and gardening to help the Walshes alleviate the debt they’ve accumulated caring for Emma’s disabled brother, who has the rare condition Sara’s husband is studying. Over the course of several months, Sara and Emma form a bond, and as Emma explores Sara’s library, she begins writing fragments of memory on the backs of old feed calendars—a process that leads her to grapple with the devastating deaths of her sister and friends, and the insularity of Amish forgiveness. The more Emma writes, the more she questions her upbringing and ingrained beliefs, ultimately seeing her relationship to Isaac Ames, the man she is destined to marry, in a new light. The story culminates with the characters making breathtaking, self-searching decisions that alter the lives of others as well as their own.
Emotionally acute and lyrically spare, Butter Road centers on living with what we can’t control, on understanding trauma and collective grief, and on following one’s heart.
Jaclyn Gilbert grew up running in the Amish countryside of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She is the author of the novel Late Air, and her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Post Road, Tin House, Literary Hub, Long Reads, and elsewhere. She has held fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock, NY. In 2021, she founded Driftless Literary, a boutique literary agency committed to representing genre-defying literature in the US and abroad.
Self Portraits, P.J. Blumenthal
Publisher: Sagging Meniscus
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Of these stories, portraits “of many selves,” the author writes: “In Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, sometimes you see the mountain, sometimes you don’t, depending on where you are standing. Like mountains, these self portraits too may be visible or invisible—or sometimes positioned at the edge of the picture. And, like mountains, they are meant to be experienced not understood.”
P.J. Blumenthal is an American writer living in Munich, Germany. He is the author of a nonfiction book on feral man, Kaspar Hausers Geschwister (Kaspar Hauser’s Siblings), as well as a German-language blog, “Der Sprachbloggeur.” Three volumes of his poetry have appeared in the USA so far: A Lusty Romance, Poems for Readers and Slow Train to Cincinnati.
Three, Na Zhong
Publisher: Joyland Editions
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback
After a long separation, a writer living in America reunites with her family in a small, industrial town in China. On her return, she looks back at her fraught relationship with her mother and finds herself telling her story from the beginning, going back as far as living memory will allow. As she chronicles her mother’s life, she details the intimate moments they shared as they weathered fights, layoffs, and illnesses, and she unearths the forces that pressurized and combusted their lives: echoes of distant wars and not-too-distant revolutions, tides of breakneck modernization, and the relentless erosion of time.
For fans of Annie Ernaux’s The Years, Three is fable-like and precise, at once a sweeping view of an era and an elegy for a splintered family.
Na Zhong is a Chinese writer based in New York. Her writings have appeared in The Drift, The Kenyon Review, and Equator, among others. A MacDowell Fellow and Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow, she co-founded Accent Accent and writes a column at China Books Review. Three is her first novella.
The Mezzanine, Anne-Marie Albiach, Teresa Villa-Ignacio (Tr)
Publisher: Litmus Press
Publication Date: October 15, 2026
Format: Paperback
Startling and audacious in its vulnerability and poetic beauty, this lone novel by the beloved French poet Anne-Marie Albiach was published posthumously in France in 2019 to great critical acclaim. The Mezzanine is presented here in English for the first time in a new translation by Teresa Villa-Ignacio and with an introduction by Cole Swensen. This publication coincides with a new second edition of Albiach’s first volume of poetry published in English translation, Mezza Voce (translated by Joseph Simas, The Post-Apollo Press, 1988; Litmus Press, 2026). As Rosmarie Waldrop writes, “In this, [Albiach’s] only novel, the fragmentation allows us to glimpse her Season in Hell: she feels trapped in a psychiatric clinic and struggles with anxieties and identity. Stronger than her fear of death is the fear of being unable to write. For it is writing that enables her to endure—and to give us this extraordinary, enigmatic novel about suffering.”
Anne-Marie Albiach (1937-2012) was a French poet and translator. With Claude Royet-Journoud and Michel Couturier, she co-edited the magazine Siècle à mains, where she first published her translation of Louis Zukofsky’s “A-9.” Her English publications include Figured Image (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006), A Geometry (Burning Deck, 1998), Vocative Figure (Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers, 1991), and ÉTAT (Awede Press, 1989). She translated Poème de mémoire by Keith Waldrop in 1982.
Rough Beast, Adrian Van Young
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
When Percy LeBlanc, the lead singer and guitarist of up-and-coming New Orleans black metal band, Bethlehem, is brutally murdered after a disastrous performance on the last stretch of an even more disastrous tour, their unassuming wallflower of a bass player is arrested. Sammy Singerman is subsequently freed, with only circumstantial evidence to connect him to the crime, but he won’t let the unquiet dead rest. Taking on the role of both detective and avenging angel, Sammy goes hell-for-leather to find Percy’s killer, plumbing Bethlehem’s history of trauma for answers before the killer finds him too.
A provocative subversion of the real-life saga of murder and criminal one-upmanship which plagued Scandinavia’s own metal scene in the early 1990s, at once reminiscent of Elizabeth Hand’s Cass Neary novels and Grace Krilanovich’s The Orange Eats Creeps, Rough Beast is a drug-soaked sewer ride straight into the grimy underbelly of the Big Easy, where nothing is sacred and nothing stays buried.
Adrian Van Young is the author of five books of fiction–most recently, Family Thing, a story collection coming from Black Lawrence Press in October 2027. His fiction, non-fiction & criticism have been published or are forthcoming in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Conjunctions, Guernica, BOMB, Granta, McSweeney’s and The New Yorker online, among others. He teaches part-time in the MFA Program at University of New Orleans, is a professional freelance editor, and currently splits his time between New Orleans and Paris, where he lives with his family.
Peck & Peck, Bonnie Garmus
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
It’s 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants—an “ear” for poetry—is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he’s folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time.
But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers—twins and enemies—as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.
And by burn, they mean incinerate. Because at Peck & Peck, “good” isn’t good enough, “interesting” doesn’t cut it, plagiarists aren’t tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom. Still want to submit your poem? Go with God.
Welcome to another dazzling and unforgettable novel from Bonnie Garmus. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry, you will love Peck & Peck.
Bonnie Garmus is a coffee-dependent American novelist. Her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, a Goodreads Choice Best Book of the Year, spent nearly two years on the New York Times bestseller list and was named by Times readers as one of the top 100 books of the 21st century. Translated into over forty languages, Lessons in Chemistry was honored with sixteen international literary awards and made into an Apple TV limited series. Peck & Peck is her second novel.
Luna, Phoenix, Queen, Julie Orringer
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
Dava and Barr Pennington, professors at a Midwestern university, both harbor potent secrets. Fiction writing is his specialty, English literature is hers. But Dava is unhappy in their marriage, and secretly in love with a colleague, Svetlana White, who teaches in the Russian Studies department; spurred by their complicated liaison, she spends her nights working on a novel about two women who run a domestic violence shelter in coastal Maine. Though she loves the work and the refuge it provides, the writing becomes increasingly difficult as her memory begins to fail; tests reveal that she’s suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s. After a precipitous decline, she moves to a memory-care facility in a neighboring town. Soon afterward, her husband, alone in the house at night, discovers her hidden manuscript, which he reads with envy, and then with anger, as he extrapolates his wife’s affair from the relationship described in the novel’s pages. Over the next two years he rewrites the novel and publishes it as his own, to wide acclaim. But persistent feelings of guilt lead him to confess his theft to an unlikely party, who leads others to the truth.
Luna, Phoenix, Queen tells its tale of artistic and marital betrayal in a chorus of voices. We hear from Barr as he becomes obsessed with Luna, a horrifically injured dog at a local shelter; from Dava as she meets Svetlana for the first time, on a transatlantic flight to Dublin; from Milo, Dava’s son, as he hides in the woods with Naomi, Svetlana’s daughter; from Svetlana, experiencing the loss of a relationship that ended before it could come to fruition; from Evie, Barr’s research assistant, who witnessed Dava’s last days at home with her husband; from James, the Penningtons’ younger son, who makes a startling discovery after his father’s death; and from Milo and Svetlana again, as they grieve the injustice of Barr’s theft and confront the devastation of Dava’s disease.
In a narrative that spans four decades and four thousand miles, Luna, Phoenix, Queen illuminates the power of storytelling and explores the terror of losing the ability to make sense of our world. It is a cry of rage against our vulnerability and helplessness; an acknowledgment of the mysteries beneath the familiar surface of our world; and ultimately, if unexpectedly, a radical testament to love in its many forms.
Julie Orringer is the author of three award-winning books: How to Breathe Underwater, The Invisible Bridge, and The Flight Portfolio, which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series Transatlantic. She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and MacDowell. She teaches at New York University and Stanford University, and lives in Brooklyn.
Passengers, Alexander Maksik
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
Ivan is a solitary man in his seventies, set in his ways and haunted by the failures of his past. His smart and cynical daughter, Nina, is in the twilight of her twenties and has long kept a distance from her sentimental father. But when Ivan proposes a trip to Europe in hopes that it will bring them closer together, Nina reluctantly agrees. They meet at LAX, where their departure is delayed. And delayed again. And again. As the hours drag on, their sharp, caustic and wide-ranging conversation reveals a lifetime of misunderstandings, unhealed wounds, and stubborn love.
Soon more flights are canceled, security tightens, airport staff grow evasive, and it becomes clear to Ivan and Nina that something is wrong. They begin to suspect that they’re being held prisoner—sequestered from the world without explanation. At last, the surreal starts to overtake the mundane, and their need to escape—and to protect each other—turns increasingly urgent.
What begins as a piercing portrait of a father and daughter becomes a novel of eerie suspense, as Nina and Ivan navigate not only their fractured bond but also a world teetering on the brink of collapse. A story of loving across gaps—between parent and child, between things said and unsaid—and about what happens when the outside world finally mirrors the chaos within, Passengers is Maksik’s most timely and accomplished novel yet.
Alexander Maksik is the author of You Deserve Nothing, a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller; A Marker to Measure Drift, which was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the basis of the 2023 motion picture Drift; Shelter in Place, named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle; and The Long Corner, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and named one of the best books of the year by The Australian. Maksik is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and The Sewanee Review’s Andrew Lytle Prize. His books have been translated into a dozen languages.
Her Kind, Sophie Lefens
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
When Ada is left to raise her young son alone, she retreats to her otherworldly aunt Leigh’s crumbling lakeside home, seeking solace for herself and stability for Lenny. Yet, among the wildflowers and the hum of the water, Ada can’t escape the nagging feeling she might not have much time left. Sensing death grow nearer, she invites her three closest friends—a brash, unemployed seamstress; a gentle, disillusioned violinist; and a serious painter—to the house over a long weekend to determine which of them might take on the impossible: raising Lenny if she no longer can.
Amidst strange animal activity and Leigh’s mysterious late-night visits to her dead husband’s grave, the women find comfort and purpose in one another’s company as their stay extends into winter. Meanwhile, Leigh’s memory is fading fast, and Ada must confront past and present truths she’s spent a lifetime avoiding.
When death does finally come to the group, it sets off a chain of events that exposes long-hidden secrets and the true mystical nature of Leigh and her ancestral home. Written in attentive, insightful prose, Her Kind is an ode to the power of love to return us to ourselves.
Sophie Lefens is a writer from Chicago. She has worked in education, advertising and publishing and is a graduate of Yale Divinity School. She has poetry, essays and reviews published in Third Coast Magazine, Passengers Journal, The Christian Century, Scary Sugar, among others.
Before I Forget, Anne Pauly, Dina Leifer (Tr)
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback
When Anne’s father dies, she is left grieving a contradiction. Jean-Pierre was a man of many faces: the self-taught philosopher born into poverty; the Buddhist who marked his favorite haikus with maple leaves; the old romantic who ended every evening kissing a pixelated portrait of his late wife; and the violent bully, whose alcoholism marked his family’s life in terrible ways.
Sorting through his belongings and making funeral preparations, Anne tries to come to terms with who and what she’s lost. And what’s more, she can’t help but recognize herself in the father she spent so much of her life running from.
Anne Pauly is a writer working and living in Paris. Her first book, Avant que j’oublie (Éditions Verdier, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Robert Walser after shortlisting for the Prix Femina, Prix Wepler, and Prix Goncourt. Anne has since written short stories for several reviews, a televised series, and a play. She is currently finishing a second novel, while working on a play for the Théâtre du Nord along with seven other writers, including Virginie Despentes, Paul B. Preciado, and Julien Delmaire.
Dina Leifer is a London-based translator and writer. She switched career from journalism to translation in 2015 after gaining an MA in Translating Popular Culture. Her published translations include a children’s short story and a nonfiction book about Big Tech. She translated a novel for the first time in 2025, after winning the Stevns Translation Prize. Before I Forget by Anne Pauly will be published in late 2026. Dina’s first picture book, And Eddie Had an Egg, was published by Green Bean Books in 2025 after she won the 2023 UK Jewish Children’s Book Award.
The Water House, Nneoma Ike-Njoku
Publisher: Summit Books
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover / eBook
1967, Nigeria. Celia has been estranged from her family since they banished her to St. Agnes’s reform school after her brother’s death. When the school closes down, she has nowhere to go and no one to write for help.
She secures a job as a typist, marking the beginning of a new chapter; she hopes to leave behind the demons of her past and become a normal, happier person. And when a charismatic yet secretive aspiring politician hires her to be his fiancé, Celia begins to dream of a possible new future. But when everything falls apart, Celia, in desperation, returns to her childhood home—the Water House.
There, Celia is confronted by her hostile mother, a past love, and the horrors that the house holds deep in its walls. As a civil war brews in the outside world, Celia begins to suspect that the truth behind her brother’s death might be more sinister than she imagined.
In a twist on Jane Eyre and Rebecca, Nneoma Ife-Njoku weaves a mesmerizing story of a woman confronting a home where the past refuses to stay buried.
Nneoma Ike-Njoku, PhD, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. A MacDowell Fellow, she was commissioned in 2022 to create an original short story for the Newman Wetlands Center, and is the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, as well as grants and residencies from Kimbilio, the Miles Morland Foundation, and Millay Arts, among others. She received her BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, where she studied literature, mathematics, and music, her MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University, and her PhD in English Literature from the University of Georgia. The Water House is her first novel.
Narcissi, Babette Fraser Hale
Publisher: Winedale Publishing
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Cole Burnett, a Texas novelist, is the kind of man whose need for freedom should send lovers running in the opposite direction. But he has a lanky charisma and the gift of listening, rare enough at any time.
The women he encounters in Narcissi, a novel-in-stories, find his attention compelling, and they all get hurt, or cause hurt. But hurt is never the whole story.
Each woman brings her own complicated life into her time with Cole, conflicts with husbands, traumas survived, needs postponed, children. And children grow up with questions.
Burnett understands that loneliness compels him toward the women he meets–whether in a tavern, like Amelia; or a street dance, like Stephanie; or a hotel event, like Lorna. And others he connects with while working, like Dolly, Elsa, Trish and Gladys.
None of them quite reaches where the loneliness resides, where whatever’s missing pushes him to keep moving, to write more, to find a purpose for his future. Later, after the death threat, traveling becomes a way to stay alive.
Babette Fraser Hale’s first story collection, A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers, received the 2022 Sergio Troncoso award for debut fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her stories previously have been awarded the Meyerson Prize from Southwest Review and included among the “Other Distinguished Stories” in Best American Short Stories, 2015. A memoir was published in 2024. In addition, she has been a magazine feature writer, columnist, contributing editor, book editor and publisher. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies, Lance Olsen
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback
At the end of his life in 1973, Henry Darger’s mind is a series of recollections: of his decades spent working as a custodian mopping floors at various Chicago hospitals; of his nights writing and making hundreds of collages that would never be seen until after his death; of the man who may have been his lover; of his abuse as a child at the hands of his father and his boarding school staff.
Informed by the real writings, collages, and other fragments of Darger’s solitary life, An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies is a masterful and imaginative look into the life of a man who wasn’t interested in attention, even less in fame, and created for no one save himself—and to save himself.
In this intense, chimeric first-person novel, Lance Olsen captures the radical interiority of an artist about whom extraordinarily little is known. Paired with the photo collages of visual artist Andi Olsen, this is a literary scavenger hunt for fans of Mark Z. Danielewski, Lidia Yuknavitch, and José Saramago.
Lance Olsen is author of more than thirty books of and about innovative writing practices, including, most recently, the novels Absolute Away (Dzanc, 2024) and Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie (FC2, 2023). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. He is a Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, two-time N.E.A. Fellowship, Connecticut Artistic Excellence Grant, and a Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar. He taught experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Salaula Sisters, Tej Rae
Publisher: Catalyst Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback
New Yorker Mara Bader moves to Zambia to teach teens Lifeskillz through soccer. Zambia offers her everything she was missing from her life in America–a sense of community and humanity. Enchanted, Mara wants to be Zambian. She learns to cook nshima like her Zambian sisters, dresses in local fabrics and falls in love with the charming, unpredictable son of an ex-minister.
Kezzy unlocks the door to Zambian culture for her, in more ways than one. They marry, with two sons following in short order. Six years later, and Mara’s already an expert in ignoring the click click click sound coming from behind the bathroom door as Kezzy texts his girlfriend. When Loveness, his mistress, confronts her, Mara makes an unusual, ill-fated choice.
Salaula Sisters explores the vagaries of modern-day Zambia, a cross-cultural marriage, and an unusual alliance.
Tej Rae is an award-winning writer and former English teacher based in Lusaka. Since 1999, she has lived in Zambia, Senegal, the UAE, Italy, and Ethiopia with her husband and two children. Her bilingual children’s book Sirens, set in Addis Ababa, came out in 2021. It led to a feature on BBC Amharic the following year. A second Amharic-English children’s book, Spaced, followed. Her action-adventure film script, Abyssinia Steel, has won three awards. In 2025, she published Tigerfish, an illustrated middle grade chapter book set in Zambia. It became the number one bestseller at two Exclusive Books outlets in South Africa that summer.
These days, Tej is growing Lusaka’s literary scene through LIT LSK. She runs writing workshops and pop-up book events featuring Catalyst and Modjaji titles. She’s also completing an MFA at the University of Cape Town. Salaula Sisters is her debut novel.
House Arrest, Noa Yedlin, Shira Atik (Tr), Evan Fallenberg (Tr)
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
This prize-winning novel chronicles a scandal that envelops a prominent Jerusalem family and leads to its downfall. The unsettling tale begins when Elisheva Fogel is accused of embezzling millions from the think tank she directs. Her three adult children try to close ranks, but old and new grievances surface, media scrutiny intensifies, romances inflame, and it’s hard to know who to trust anymore. On top of it all, it’s not just a renowned matriarch who comes under the microscope—everybody stands to lose financial and social capital. The allegation and its repercussions expose not only cracks in a heretofore esteemed clan, but plenty of hypocrisy throughout elite Israeli society. The novel has Noa Yedlin’s hallmark traits: richly detailed scenes and settings, piercing humor, and incisive social critique, all propelled by an immersive story.
Noa Yedlin is a bestselling Israeli author acclaimed for her dark and subtle humor. The recipient of the Sapir Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, she has created an award-winning television series based on her novel Stockholm.
Shira Atik studied Hebrew literature at Barnard College and New York University and has translated works by Savyon Liebrecht, Gadi Taub, and Ofra Offer Oren.
Evan Fallenberg has translated works by Meir Shalev, Batya Gur, and Hanoch Levin. He is the author of three novels and teaches creative writing at Bar-Ilan University .
MotherPerson, Molly Moynahan
Publisher: Empress Editions
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Claire has survived everything life could throw at her—addiction, grief, ambition that didn’t pan out, and love that arrived in all the wrong forms. Now, in midlife, she’s done pretending.
She wants the truth.
About her marriage.
Her desires.
Her talent.
And the woman she once promised herself she’d become.
Moving between New York, London, Dallas, Chicago, and a remote artist’s retreat in Taos, Claire begins to unravel the roles that have defined her—wife, mother, daughter, teacher—and confront the one she buried long ago: herself. Along the way, she falls into unexpected love, challenges the quiet ways women are taught to disappear, and rediscovers the fierce, creative voice she thought she’d lost for good.
Told in luminous, incisive prose, MotherPerson is at once intimate and expansive—a novel about reinvention, creative hunger, motherhood, and what it means to claim your life, even when it’s messy, imperfect, and late in the game.
This is a story for every woman who has ever asked:
Where did I go… and how do I get myself back?
Molly Moynahan is an award-winning novelist, editor, and writing coach whose work explores motherhood, identity, marriage, reinvention, and the emotional complexities of women’s lives.
She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Stone Garden, a New York Times Notable Book, and has received fellowships, grants, and residencies in recognition of her literary work. A former editor at Random House and Bantam Doubleday Dell, Moynahan has spent more than three decades shaping stories as a novelist, teacher, editor, and mentor to writers across publishing, academia, and the creative arts.
She has taught fiction and literature at Rutgers University, Brooklyn College, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University, and City Lit in London.
She lives and writes in northern Michigan.
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Contents
October ’26: Best of the Net, New Staff & New Schedule
Managing Editor Aiden Hunt shares about Philly Chapbook Review’s staff changes, Best of the Net nominations, submission stats, and new publication format in this editor’s note to Issue 14.
“I always feel like I have so much to say to my mother and in this poem, I selected a few memories to share. In a way, this creative choice is symbolic of waving my white flag…” Read three poems by Natalie Zhang, along with a few words about “Flagship.”
The Vocabulary of Disability: On Atropa Belladonna Coursing Through My Veins by Sudikshaa Amar
“Amar’s varied descriptions of embodied experience…let readers see into the work of forging a personal nomenclature for identity and action.” Read the full chapbook review by Contributing Editor, D.W. Baker.