HNR Issue 116 (May 2026)
The Hired Man
Genres:
Ravaged by the Depression and the Dust Bowl, the residents of a small Colorado farming town try to eke out a living despite ...Read Review
Love Lane
Genres:
Love Lane is an ambitious sweep through many lives. It begins on the Canadian prairie in the early 20th century. Widower Harry Cane ...Read Review
Alban of Verulamium: Britannia’s First Saint
Genres:
Ted Hill tells the story of the first Christian martyr of Britain, a noble Roman who chose conscience over law, and faith over ...Read Review
How to Fake It in Society
Genres:
Due to a spiteful old woman’s unusual plans, paint shop owner Titus Pilcrow inherits a fortune and, with this windfall, a host ...Read Review
The Foursome
Genres:
Christina Baker Kline dips into her own family history for The Foursome, a compelling novel based on the true story of two North ...Read Review
Powder for Drying Wounds
Genres:
This novel is an ambitious and original reimagining of the First World War, extending the conflict beyond 1918 into a morally depleted 1920s. The ...Read Review
Havisham
Genres:
Reimagining the lives of canonical characters has become a familiar strand of historical fiction, and Havisham joins this tradition by retelling the story ...Read Review
Little Bird
Genres:
Barbara Viniar’s family saga explores Russian Jewish culture and assimilation into American life. Feige’s story from 1910 to 1917 is compassionate and honest, ...Read Review
And Still Her Voice
Genres:
Los Angeles, 1967. Anna LeMar is the teen daughter of a pious Mexican mother and a white, abusive, alcoholic father. She’s the oldest ...Read Review
Evangeline’s Journey
Genres:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry largely fell out of high school curricula long ago, but his poem “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie” has ...Read Review
