Grand Union by Zadie Smith: “Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.”

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner: “[A] tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.”

Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok: “[An] eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. […] Last of Her Name offers a meditation on female desire and resilience, family and the nature of memory.”