Bellevue Literary
Hap and Hazard and the End of the World
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The narrator of this dreamlike novel is an unnamed seven-year-old girl who simply wants to know what is true and what is not. ...Read Review
A Fugitive in Walden Woods
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Samuel Long escapes slavery in 1844 and travels the Underground Railroad until he reaches Concord, Massachusetts, and eventually Walden Pond. There, he is quickly ...Read Review
Jerzy
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By peeling off layers of fiction to expose the facts of Jerzy Kosinski’s life, author Jerome Charyn chops through the façade ...Read Review
The Attempt
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The English edition of Czech author Platzová’s latest novel is a condensed and masterful example of experimental literary fiction with historical roots: ...Read Review
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century
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An endnote to his novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Charyn’s A Loaded Gun further supports his case for a fresh ...Read Review
The Surfacing
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Lieutenant Morgan is at the edge of the known world in 1850, with plenty of worries on his mind. His captain is driving their ...Read Review
American Meteor
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April 1865. Private Stephan Moran, 18, bugler for the 173rd New York, loses one eye through carelessness with his gun. For this, he receives an ...Read Review
The Boy in His Winter
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Huckleberry Finn floats down the Mississippi without aging until the early 21st century, when he encounters Hurricane Katrina. Arrested for his inadvertent involvement ...Read Review