Esmé Weijun Wang writes of with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, the medical community’s own disagreement about diagnosing those with mental illness, and the examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. Entertainment Weekly calls the collection "utterly unique."

Editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom, love, and justice. The result is a collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. 

Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season, painting a vibrant portrait of tennis that captures the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the game and places them in a broader cultural and social context. The New York Times Book Review says The Circuit is "a joy to read" and calls it "a poet’s love song to the game of tennis."

Eighteen-year-old Aden Sawyer wants to escape her hometown. Her dream, however, is far from conventional fantasies of teen rebellion: she disguises herself as a young man named Suleyman and goes to study in Pakistan. Once she is on the ground, she finds herself in greater danger than she could possibly have imagined. The New York Times calls Godsend "a significant literary performance."

In her tragicomic third collection, Barnett speaks carries philosophy into the everyday and asks, what are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Human Hours measures time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover’s breaths; by remembering a father’s space-age watch. "These unforgettable poems," writes Claudia Rankine, "draw us into the precarious nature of being human."

In her first short story collection, Lacey explores characters coming to terms with breakups, abandonment, and strained family ties. A woman leaves her dead husband’s clothing on the street, only for it to reappear on the body of a stranger; a man reads his ex-wife’s short story and neurotically contemplates whether it is about him. The Chicago Tribune says the collection is full of "devastating epiphanies."

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, a disillusioned do-gooder named Kate meets Jaap, a charismatic European making a film about the 1911 fire that burned Coney Island’s Dreamland amusement park to ashes. Desperate for something to live for, Kate buys a ticket on the thrill ride of Jaap’s passion. The only trick is to keep the roller coaster from running off the rails before it destroys them all.

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, the country's past and future eras and errors, and its dreams and nightmares. The Los Angeles Times calls the latest book by Hayes "the right poetry collection for right now."